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Never heard this incredible Jean-Paul Sartre story before.

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Ali Smith on re-reading books. (Also, I agree.)

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Reading an old interview with Bob Dylan. These are the type of questions that you don’t really see musicians/celebrities being asked anymore.

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@petertork1967 I like how Dylan always takes his time to consider things.

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@eggshellfriend It’s possible to become too obsessed with Finnegans Wake (from a Lou Reed biography)…

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“My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don’t…”

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@chloellene This one somehow manages to work what seems like a feud from college into their review of Ulysses.

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@randallwrites No, it’s from this:

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Delmore Schwartz explains his years of dedication to understanding Finnegans Wake to (his student) Lou Reed. (The last sentence makes me hope that they retrieved everything.)

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@JoeStephenson96 Remember when they did a WWF one

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Books read in May 2024. My favourites were probably Kick The Latch by Kathryn Scanlan and Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson. Would recommend all of these books though.

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Ironically I often find myself rereading this paragraph by Michael Hofmann from 2018 about novels he rereads at least once a year that have “magic in their molecules”. Really love all of these books.

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@elsalwilliams This reminds me of the story of Bob Dylan doing something similar - except here it's the right visitor but the wrong house.

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Books read (and two reread) in June 2024. My favourite was probably William Blake vs The World by John Higgs for its scope and originality. Really liked and would recommend all of these books though.

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@philosofarr “…Don't take it so personally You're not the only one That time has got it in for…”

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Books read and in April 2024. My favourite was probably The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. These books were all great though.

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Books read in March 2024. My favourite was probably Good Behaviour by Molly Keane. Really liked all of these books though.

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Books read in May 2023. My favourites were probably After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz and The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer but I really liked all of these books.

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I got a dog. Please say hello to Ben.

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@newschambers Put ATM Under Pressure

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I can’t believe Milkman by Anna Burns isn’t on that “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” list.

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Books read in July 2023. My favourite fiction books were probably The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell and Look At Me by Anita Brookner. I really liked all of these books.

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Books read in November 2023. Really liked all of these. My favourite was probably Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au.

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Books read in October 2023. Really liked all of these books for different reasons and can’t pick a favourite.

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Books read (and one reread) in June 2023. My favourites were probably An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro and Just Kids by Patti Smith - neither of which I had read before. I really liked all of these books though.

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Great mention for @BacklistedPod in @TheSundayIndo today 📚

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Irish people being cured by Kurt Cobain’s old coat back in 1994.

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@gavreilly They should change the Elvis song on the lotto ad from ‘Pocket Full of Rainbows’ to ‘Suspicious Minds’

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Probably the least challenging dare of all time.

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@JaredMPollen I also really like this one.

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Tomorrow is the 11 year anniversary of the day I saw Bob Dylan perform at The Marquee in Cork and Roy Keane sat directly in front of me, blocking my view of the stage.

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@newschambers This biggest comeback for Cash since the American Recordings series of albums.

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Books I read in October 2022. Favourites were The Bend for Home by Dermot Healy and Fight Night by Miriam Toews. Also loved the two books that had been on my tbr pile for years - Lincoln in the Bardo and Hangover Square.

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Books read (and one reread) in July 2024. My favourites were probably A Flat Place by Noreen Masud and Service by Sarah Gilmartin. Really liked all of these books.

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File under ‘ways to not use a bin’.

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@gavreilly I remember the entire school crowded into the assembly hall trying to watch it on one of these…

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@FancyVegasPro The funniest line Marge ever said: "I hate knock knock jokes. I always ruin them by saying 'Come in'".

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I like the dedication at the start of The Hard Life by Flann O’Brien.

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@TheLuisPanini Totally agree, although I am inspired by this passage from a Lou Reed biography about his teacher’s attempt to understand Finnegans Wake

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Fairly late to the Weird Studies podcast but now I’m obsessed with it.

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Books read in August 2023. My favourites were probably The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan and Quartet by Jean Rhys, but there were a lot of highlights this month.

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Wondering if the people who were big fans of the writings of Jonathan Swift in the 1700s were called Swifties.

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Books I read in December 2022. Favourites were probably Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave and Sean O’Hagan and I Used to Live Here Once by Miranda Seymour. Overall, I really liked every book I read this month.

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Books read in September 2022. My favourites were The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride and That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis. Also tried to mix some sci-fi books with some poetry books to see what would happen to my brain.

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Books I read in February 2023. A really great reading month with a lot of highlights (and I finally got around to reading Murakami and Hemingway for the first time). Highly recommend all of these books.

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#NowReading

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@Ciaraioch I changed my settings from The Holy See to The Holy Unseen.

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Ottessa Moshfegh on her next novel.

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@newschambers @gavreilly Brooker G

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'A Christmassy Ted' is a Christmas movie. Thank you for coming to my Father Ted talk. #FrTed

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Please note that it’s not the Peaky Blinders style that’s in fashion, it’s actually the James Joyce style.

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@MartinDoyleIT Dorian Gray maybe?

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Wynton Marsalis’s music Q&A.

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The next question was about his new album.

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@i_am_mill_i_am Great list. The Master was one of my favourite books last year when I read it in-between a binge of Henry James books. Here’s mine for March. Difficult to pick a favourite but a real highlight was the very funny imo Leaving the Atocha Station.

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@WWERomanReigns defeats @WWEBig_Show at #WWEDublin http://t.co/jLIysfXREf

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By Louis MacNeice. #Mood

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‘I Really Should Have…’ by Franz Kafka is one of the funniest (very) short stories I’ve read. I also like that it can be read, in its entirety, from this one picture. #stairs

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The winner of #Homeoftheyear should be decided by how each house looks when the judges turn up unexpectedly for another look around.

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Celebrating Bloomsday by sitting like this today.

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Probably my favourite line from the new Dylan interview.

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They should do a #FairCity episode from the Carrickstown prison. It could feature Ciarán, Emmet, Dr Oakley, Dermot, Will and Zumo.

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@R_McCormack @MarinaSofia8 Artful.

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“They did not think about art in the same way.”

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Carol is having a bad knight #FairCity

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@ThatEricAlper Nevermind

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Books I read in November 2022. Favourites were probably Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett and Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret. Also, the Thirtieth Year by Ingeborg Bachmann is incredible. Overall, all the books were great.

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I suppose we’ll never really know if - in the days following Christmas - Scrooge just went back to his old ways. I’d be inclined to think he did. (Same applies to The Grinch).

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Sunglasses come off, umbrella goes up, umbrella comes down, sunglasses go on, sunglasses come off, umbrella goes up and then it’s July.

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Mark E. Smith on comedy not being the new rock ‘n’ roll.

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Thank you @BrennanMarjorie for interviewing me for ‘Books are my Business’ in the Irish Examiner today.

Books are my business: Literary publicist Mark Walsh

Walsh works with a range of publishers, self-published authors, and literary festivals

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Books are my business: Literary publicist Mark Walsh

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@i_am_mill_i_am Great list. I have ‘Elizabeth Finch’ and ‘Poguemahone’ on my tbr pile. Here’s what I read in April. Favourites were probably ‘POPism’ and ‘The Flames’, although I loved ‘This Woman’s Work’ and ‘Vertigo and Ghost’ too.

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Listened to Cillian Murphy’s Desert Island Discs episode yesterday and he said that the one book he would bring with him to the island is the complete works of Samuel Beckett and I can understand the logic there.

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You’d nearly forget how much bands loved shopping trolleys in the ‘90s.

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Great to see @edoloughlin officially launch his new book The Last Good Funeral of the Year at @gutterbookshop this evening.

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#NowReading Finally reading the last book in Ali Smith's seasonal quartet.

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These gardens look great and all but where does the clothes line go? #SuperGarden

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Which pop siblings do you prefer to Oasis? I’ll start. The Nolans.

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@i_am_mill_i_am Great list. Thank you for recommending The Last Samurai on here, which is one of the best books I’ve read in the last few years. Here’s what I read in June. Really loved the Isherwood’s too but all these books were great.

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#NowReading

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Was in a bookshop earlier and I asked “Do you have ‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction’ by J. D. Salinger?” The bookseller replied “You’re looking for ‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction’ by J. D. Salinger?” (1/2)

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Books I read in January 2023. My favourite was probably The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, which I hadn’t read before. Special mention also to the two music books which were great, yet weren’t really music books as such.

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Pete Doherty on not recognising Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys.

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@i_am_mill_i_am Great list. I really need to read Small Things Like These. Here’s what I read. Highlights were Sudden Times by Dermot Healy and We Were Young by Niamh Campbell, although every book was very welcome in February.

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@i_am_mill_i_am @BacklistedPod Welcome back! (before you go). Here's mine from this month.

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What going to the cinema will be like going forward

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Bob Dylan sitting with songwriters better than him.

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Books read in December 2023. My favourites were The Fortnight in September by R.C Sherriff and Love Me Do! by Michael Braun.

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Really enjoyed the Peig Sayers exhibition at @MoLI_Museum . A great look at her storytelling and the history of folklore in Ireland.

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Alternative titles for #IarnrodEnda Fine Rail Enda the Line Political Platform Dailways "On the Right Track" Tracks and Gaels Engine Kenny (That's enough for now) 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃

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@Tim_Burgess

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Based on his daily routine, Haruki Murakami is literature’s Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

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A reminder that BBC Four is showing Mrs Dalloway tonight at 10:30pm.

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Planning on having a Virginia Woolf themed movie week this week. Watching ‘The Hours’ tonight, ‘Mrs Dalloway’ on Thursday (BBC4) and ‘Vita & Virginia’ - most likely on Friday.

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Was in a bookshop earlier and I asked “Do you have ‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction’ by J. D. Salinger?” The bookseller replied “You’re looking for ‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction’ by J. D. Salinger?” (1/2)

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#NowReading