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Bicycles & Blues: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman at 50

Posted on November 11, 2017 by Jamie Samson

Here is a link to my piece on Flann O’Brien’s great novel The Third Policeman over at Headstuff:   https://www.headstuff.org/literature/flann-obriens-the-third-policeman-turns-50/… Read more Bicycles & Blues: Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman at 50

That Awkward Moment

Posted on August 10, 2017August 20, 2017 by Jamie Samson

Two years ago, when I moved back to my hometown of Dublin, I managed to secure an interview for the… Read more That Awkward Moment

Nothing on Earth – Conor O’Callaghan

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Jamie Samson

Since the rapacious early years of this century, certain strains of the Irish landscape – namely, those weird, amorphous zones… Read more Nothing on Earth – Conor O’Callaghan

Into the Liquid Plain: Narcissus-Eve-Scarlett

Posted on March 26, 2017March 26, 2017 by Jamie Samson

Though it generally deserves its reputation for aggressive difficulty, there are moments in Paradise Lost when the valiant reader, having… Read more Into the Liquid Plain: Narcissus-Eve-Scarlett

SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – Mr Knockly (Lydia Davis)

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Jamie Samson

So enigmatic, so elliptical, so implacably strange are the stories of Lydia Davis, the reader is tempted to avoid reckoning… Read more SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – Mr Knockly (Lydia Davis)

The Net Delusion – Evgeny Morozov

Posted on January 29, 2017January 29, 2017 by Jamie Samson

If you count yourself among the small, serene faction of dreamers, data-poets, tech-millionaires and -billionaires and policymakers who still think… Read more The Net Delusion – Evgeny Morozov

The Way Inn – Will Wiles

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Jamie Samson

What Gogol was to Russia in the nineteenth century, what Mallarmé was to France in the twentieth, and what David… Read more The Way Inn – Will Wiles

SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – Diary Of A Madman (Nikolai Gogol)

Posted on January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 by Jamie Samson

Diaries, like dreams, are better suited to life than to art. As a rule both are confused, inconclusive, and aggressively… Read more SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – Diary Of A Madman (Nikolai Gogol)

SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – The Soul Is Not A Smithy (David Foster Wallace)

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Jamie Samson

David Foster Wallace, who already appears to have secured himself a spot in America’s wing of the Western Canon, was… Read more SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – The Soul Is Not A Smithy (David Foster Wallace)

SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – In The Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)

Posted on January 19, 2017January 19, 2017 by Jamie Samson

Of all the totemic figures in modernist literature, Kafka is the easiest to read and the hardest to write about.… Read more SHORT STORIES IN FOCUS – In The Penal Colony (Franz Kafka)

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