Lying under Roddy Doyle’s bed, without food or water for several days, gently moving my book forward, just waiting for him to mention me in the NY Times.
Thrilled to have won the Kate O’Brien award! So nice to be nominated alongside these other brilliant writers. Sad to have missed it but congrats to
@stingingfly
for this exceptional impression.
Alright yes I did just try to pass myself off as Kate O'Brien Award winner
@nicoleflattery
and
@SarahDavisGoff
@AnneGriffin_
and the good people of Limerick were having none of it. Delighted for Nicole and proud! The brilliant shortlist also included Lucy Sweeney Byrne.
Hello my book is out in the UK tomorrow with
@BloomsburyBooks
. In the UK it looks like this, without the post-it. You can add your own post-it any time you like.
The book that some critics called ‘too depressing’ in 2019 is back in paperback in 2020. In the UK next week. Cover is the same as lovely
@stingingfly
version with thanks to Alice Maher.
I reviewed Anne Enright’s ‘Actress’ for
@LRB
. It’s long been a fantasy of mine to write something that could appear under the headline ‘Bury that bastard.’
My book is out in the US at the end of this month and it’s one of Time’s books to read in January. The nice new version has lots of green and a woman in despair (me??) on the cover.
Looking for a one-bed in Dublin if anyone has any leads please contact me!! Yes I just looked at 2020 and thought: I would like to make this much worse for myself.
I fractured my arm and I’ve done more writing in the last three days than in the last three months because the doctor said it was ‘inadvisable’. I live for danger!!
I have a story up on
@ElectricLit
today with a v.nice intro by
@ColinBarrett82
that makes me sound much smarter than I am because, truly, I’m an idiot.
Nice to be nominated for two
@AnPostIBAS
- newcomer and story of the year!! This is an immensely impressive list and you should buy/read all these books.
Humbled and honored to have forced a critic to write the sentence ‘Is Simon a hallucination or a chicken?’ (From the TLS review of
@beingvarious
excellent anthology)
“What Bella has is this power of freedom. And that is scary to people at times.”
Yorgos Lanthimos speaks to Nicole Flattery about Poor Things, a Frankenstein story full of sex and humour – and even hope:
Join us for the Launch of "Show Them A Good Time" by
@nicoleflattery
at 6pm on Thursday 28th February 2019
@Hodges_Figgis
🍷🎉📚
-- Startling, daring and dazzlingly dark -- Colin Barrett (Guest Speaker on the night)
@stingingfly
‘I felt nervous when my fingers first pressed the keys, as if I was embarking on an intimate relationship, which I suppose I was.’
An extract from Nothing Special by
@nicoleflattery
. Out next week from
@BloomsburyBooks
.
A new story by
@nicoleflattery
!
"There is a certain recalibration happening right now. I see it quite plainly on the streets—people deciding what they do and don’t believe. People are finally deciding."
Reading on
@holdingcellirl
this evening at 7.30. Going to read something from the book I’m working on now because it just seems reckless and I need that high🤪
Many thanks to
@stingingfly
for this/everything. It’s out in February/
@BloomsburyBooks
March.Two sets of proofs! Two covers! If you’re confused - good. That’s a theme of the book.
Just arrived here at Fly HQ - delighted to be publishing
@nicoleflattery
's brilliant collection of stories at the end of February. We promise to show ye all a very good time at the launch
@Hodges_Figgis
28.02.19
I had to resist playing the Hustlers soundtrack in full for this, but I managed it. This was extremely fun with
@johnkellytweets
and it’s on Sunday evening 7-9pm.
I recently had a dream that Mary Gaitskill wrote and directed an adaptation of Catwoman that was v.well received (in my dream) and widely considered the end to Batman, as a figure.
8 Mar:
@nicoleflattery
, author of short story collection ‘Show Them a Good Time’, will discuss her debut novel NOTHING SPECIAL with Claire-Louise Bennett
Book here:
I’m obsessed with every review being like ‘Mae is so difficult, enraging, terrible’ and me just going out and being like ‘I love her! Put a lot of myself in there.’
I reviewed the new Warhol biography for
@IrishTimesBooks
and honestly not a good time to be reading about a bunch of untrustworthy people constantly going out.
In conversation with Rob tomorrow as part of the
@RedLineBookFest
. Talking about writing different books at different times of your life, the concept of ‘real life’, the end of the world, The Sopranos.
Join us on 21 April when twice International Booker Prize nominee Fernanda Melchor will discuss her latest novel to appear in English PARADAIS (tr. Sophie Hughes) with Nicole Flattery
Book your tickets here:
My sister is pregnant with her first child! It’s so beautiful to think that baby is going to be 42 by the time I’m finished my book. I hope they buy a copy.
Simply imagine being as good at anything as Keith Ridgway is at writing. I discussed one of my favourite ever stories with
@denton_danny
. Bonus Warhol content. Not for the whole family.
STAGT is out in the US of A next Tuesday the 28th, the end of this godforsaken month. Thank you to
@danpjsheehan
for including it in
@lithub
most anticipated books.
Hello I contributed to the
@IrishTimes
books of the year. My own book is out in February. Looking forward to the reviews that tell me things I don’t want to know about my personality.
It's here. The White Review's 2018 Short Story Prize is officially open for submissions. We are also pleased to announce that the Prize is being generously supported this year by
@UA_Books
. For details on how to enter and T&C's, click here:
Anything praised by the King Gary Lutz deserves all the attention. The Dominant Animal by
@K_Scanlan_
is of my favorites of this year and it’s published today✨
‘Unusual, finely judged and wrought work.' – Lydia Davis
‘A startling, arresting debut.’ – Nicole Flattery
‘Kathryn Scanlan comes to us as an oracle when we have never before been so desperately in need.' – Gary Lutz
Happy publication day to THE DOMINANT ANIMAL by
@K_Scanlan_
If you're in Galway - or any place thereabouts - please come join us on Thursday in
@DubrayBooks
Shop Street for the launch of
@nicoleflattery
's Show Them A Good Time - 6.30pm - all welcome!!