Frank O'Connor

A lifetime bond over books

2010-12-05 00:00:00

Every Christmas when I was a child and even as a young adult, I knew which present I would open last. Deep under the tree, covered with fallen needles and those home-made paper ornaments you save for the lowest branches, lay a large box. Originally used...

'The Holy City: A Novel' by Patrick McCabe

2009-01-14 00:00:00

At some point, there's a large and interesting essay to be written on why so much of the most interesting new English-language fiction comes to us from Indian and Irish writers. When it is, there ought to be a substantial section devoted to Patrick...

Dublin, beyond the Blooms

2005-08-28 00:00:00

THE notion of a holiday built around literature is a contradiction, which makes Dublin the right destination for those inclined toward the literary life. Travel, after all, is about going and doing. The consolations of reading are solitary; even the...

For Cork City, it's finally show time

2005-04-10 00:00:00

Like the rest of Ireland, Cork is a bursting-at-the-seams success story that's giving rise to a yearlong party. Cork's designation as the European Capital of Culture for 2005 should prompt more visitors to take a look at this energetic port city of...

'The Curfew' by Jesse Ball

2011-06-21 15:37:42

What's the conventional wisdom about experimental fiction in America? It began with Gertrude Stein — true — and, as the Irish story writer Frank O'Connor once put it, looks funny on the page — often true — and then basically went...

Md. voters give OK to 15,000 slots

2008-11-05 00:00:00

Marylanders voted overwhelmingly yesterday to legalize slot-machine gambling in the state after a rancorous campaign, dealing Gov. Martin O'Malley a ballot-box success and settling a debate over which politicians had deadlocked for years. The...

Dublin your pleasure

2004-03-09 00:00:00

In a city that takes its Irish heritage seriously, it's no surprise that we like to make St. Pat's Day last as long as possible. The weekend before the big day is packed with more parties than you can shake a shamrock at--check out these top bashes....

Julius Shulman's 1947 photograph of the Von Sternberg Residence in Northridge shows the 1936 home's architect, Richard Neutra, and his wife, Dione, socializing on the patio with Ayn Rand and Frank O'Connor.

2007-10-11 00:00:00