Kevin Barry
Book Shambles
This week Robin and Josie are joined by the multi-award winning, and Booker Prize long-listed, Irish novelist and short stories writer Kevin Barry. They chat about his latest collection of short stories, That Old Country Music, the grumpiness of Dennis Potter, a hatred of the first draft and the appeal of living by a swamp.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor
Potter on Potter by Dennis Potter
Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews and a Lecture by Dennis Potter
The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953-1994 by Dennis Potter
Dennis Potter: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter
City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
The work of Jonathan Raban
Dubliners by James Joyce
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