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Give McGaherns the dark a go. Brilliant investigation of the trappings off religion and guilt and loads of wanks. Short too

Have you seen the quiet girl? Claire Keenan’s foster… what you’re saying about a small story that’s devastating, Jesus Christ, everyone walk out of the cinema was crying

I’ve bought young skins several times to give it to other people I love it that much

I would love to have an American brain. Life would be simpler

Any accusations of American artlessness will have a tinge of jealousy

Like Ballard you’re not going to him for real people you’re there for another world

All of his dialogue is like that too, not natural, lectures. But I do really like him

McGahern is beautiful. He pulls so much out of the everyday simplicity. I’m reading amongst women at the moment and just finished the dark. They are essentially the same thing, the complicated traumatised Irish da.

Don’t know if that’s possible we’re all in the stew together are we not

I’m glad I’m a catholic though, hate to be a Protestant or muslim or Jew

I remember a teenage atheist arrogance. But as yoi get older you realise how much you’re steeped and stewed and how its inescapable.

Yes! It shows up whether you like it or not

I don’t find him funny at all. Strangelove isn’t funny even though it tries to be. It’s queasy and unsettling

The look of a Catholic Church compared to a Protestant one

Kevin Barry: Funny, actually—writers of the American South often have a resonance with Irish writers. A lot of the concerns seem somehow familiar. A lot of cultural influences in that part of the United States come from Ireland in terms of the music and so forth. Language that originates in...

I watched the film again recently, it’s still brilliant and makes me feel queasy and excited

He hated it in the end and hates the Kubrick film, tried to get it canned. And the burglary rape scene was his way of processing his wife’s abuse by some off duty soldiers

This perfectly captures the English character and contains all of the elements you describe in your next paragraph

His interviews are great. I’ll get the ink trade thank you. I’ve only read a clockwork orange …. Made me feel sick for a while after, the language lingers and loops in your head like a bad music hook. Have you read his novels?

The are not sure what truth is. They have a system of logic that defies logic. The only country that can be regarded as a custodian of unchanging human truth!