What makes a funny narrative?
There is a great deal of charm in Jeremiah's voice, and my guess is this charm is not unrelated to the author. Where does it come from? I...
Sexual Morality: an author and his protagonist
How much does your novel The Wake's protagonist, Jeremiah Coffey, bear resemblance to Colm Herron the author? We’re like peas in a pod....
A Slow Striptease: What a Novel Demands
What does novel writing demand of you? The kind of novel writing I do is a bit like taking off all my clothes in public. For example, the...
The Orange and the Green (And the British in between ....)
When I was a boy growing up in Northern Ireland I got to learn a lot of songs, some Irish, some rock and some sectarian. One that I...
Women and Freedom
“The only position for women in the civil rights movements is prone.” -Stokely Carmichael, African American civil rights leader (1968)...
The Wake that Woke the Dead
I’ve heard of life imitating art but the only time I ever saw death imitating it was at Samuel John MacPherson’s wake down in Glut, a...
