Roddy Doyle

Book review: 'Half-Blood Blues' by Esi Edugyan

2012-03-04 00:00:00

Not unlike its counterpart rock 'n' roll, memorable jazz novels occupy a pretty slim shelf at the local bookstore. Though the music has been gracefully spun into fiction by Roddy Doyle, Michael Ondaatje and — most distinctively — Rafi Zabor in...

Discoveries

2011-05-22 00:00:00

A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman Complete Short Stories Margaret Drabble Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 215 pp., $24 Written over a period of 50 years, these stories reveal a great deal about a writer best known for her novels. Organized...

What's on these authors' summer 2011 reading list

2011-05-22 00:00:00

Here at Book Review, we know what looked good to us on the summer bookshelves, but we couldn't help but wonder what some of our favorite authors were looking forward to tossing in their travel bag or bringing out to the backyard or the beach for one of...

Theatre review: 'The Field' and 'War' at Theatre Banshee

2010-10-28 16:32:44

The Siren's Call: Summer chills from Neil Gaiman & Co.

2010-06-04 14:55:00

Let's face it: If Homer or Virgil were writing today, their work would probably get shelved in the fantasy section of the bookstore rather than in "Classics of Western Literature." "Oh, c'mon," I imagine some bookseller saying, "the publisher says this...

The Hay Festival is underway without Henning Mankell

2010-06-01 16:34:32

PEN World Voices announces lineup

2010-03-19 21:33:50

'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...

'Brooklyn' by Colm Tóibín

2009-05-03 00:00:00

Brooklyn A Novel Colm T�ib�n Scribner: 272 pp., $25 Colm T�ib�n leads a generation of Irish novelists, born in the 1950s, who have achieved wide international readership. Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe have long been...

Chicagoland book club: the second Friday group

2010-06-03 00:00:00

A few things to know about our book club: Our book club originated 10 years ago with 7 members discussing our first book “The House of Mirth” by Edith Wharton. That proved to be a daunting first choice and led us to lighten up and diversify...

Irish plays performed back-to-back to show contrast

2010-10-13 00:00:00

Theatre Banshee is known for its Irish plays, but this season producers are trying something new: staging two Irish plays performed simultaneously so the audience can see one play in the afternoon, take a break, and see the other at night. The first...

, who also began the still thriving local tradition of denigrating the place when he described himself as "dropped in wretched Dublin.

2012-09-28 09:13:00