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New Writing from Ireland at the Bay Area Book Festival

Sunday, May 8th @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Ireland has been the source of some of the most exhilarating and subversive new fiction in recent years, and these are three of its shining stars. Claire-Louise Bennett made a splash with her debut collection, Pond, and more than delivers on its promise with Checkout 19, a narratively unconventional novel featuring a nameless narrator who, The New Yorker writes, “for good and for ill, both clings to and disowns her life.” The “brilliant, confounding” (The New Yorker) Sarah Moss presents The Fell, a breathless novel that explores fear and connection as a woman leaves pandemic lockdown to take a walk in the hills (“a page-turner…. I gulped The Fell down in one sitting,” says Emma Donoghue). And County Mayo’s Colin Barrett, who swept international literary awards with his debut, Young Skins, has penned a second collection, Homesickness, that Sally Rooney called “mesmerizingly powerful.” Moderated by novelist and essayist Rosemary Graham, this event is a fascinating dispatch from the small isle whose literary shadow, past and present, looms large.

(All three authors appear in additional sessions at the festival as well.)

Details

Date:
Sunday, May 8th
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://www.baybookfest.org/session/new-writing-from-ireland/

Organizer

Bay Area Book Festival
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Venue

The Magnes – Auditorium
2121 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94707 United States
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84xmWB3P_normal     CALENDAR SPONSORED IN PART BY THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF IRELAND, SAN FRANCISCO