In her novel “Nothing Special,” Nicole Flattery exhibits a keen eye for how often what looks like an escape hatch is another trap.

Novelist Nicole Flattery on what ‘The Shining’ actress taught her about life

If Anne Enright’s stories took a physical form, I imagine they would be a well-dressed woman screaming into a silk...

Nicole Flattery on Chantal Akerman’s New York and her own interest in dead time

From a mysterious thriller to an examination of masculinity

Gwendoline Riley’s landscape is the North of England: bars, motorways, housing estates. In her novels, there is often...

14 year old Beatrice attends an after-school class for 'Female CEO’s of the Future’.

Nicole Flattery’s debut novel, “Nothing Special,” follows the protagonist through a menial and disorienting day job transcribing tape recordings — at Andy Warhol’s Factory.

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The Irish writer’s debut story collection is a highly addictive mix of deadpan drollery and candour

“Not the End Yet”by Nicole Flattery The arranged place was not easy to find. Angela drove, her window rolled down. She knew if someone glanced inside her car, they would think: That woman’s life has...

The interiors of Andy Warhol’s Factory, at 231 East 47th Street, were famously all silver: silver foil on the walls, silver paint on the pipes and ducts

Before the release of her new novel "Nothing Special," which follows a typist at Andy Warhol's factory, Nicole Flattery talked to us about embracing ugliness in her fiction.

Exploring female friendship, fame and identity, this coming-of-age tale follows two young women in 1960s New York

This week, the staff of ‘The Paris Review’ reads Paul Muldoon, feels despair, and considers the fact that ‘Ducks, Newburyport’ is very long.

Debut fiction by Nicole Flattery, Miriam Cohen and Nicolette Polek unearths the uncanny.

Out of Ireland summer fiction: this is the last in the series

A lonely teenager lands a job as the artist’s typist in a wry and quietly bold coming-of-age tale

Lynne Tillman’s Mothercare shows us the end. Reading it, you feel Tillman’s clammy grip on your wrist reminding you...

Kitschy unboxing videos, sunset selfies, TikTok dances: what would the man in the blonde wig make of the world he created, asks Nicole Flattery

The Irish author has produced a maddeningly engrossing account of a teenager who works as a typist at Andy Warhol's studio

The struggle of Pew is one that first occurs to brooding teenagers of the community: what would you do, and who would...

 Here it was, loud and grandiose, the year 2000: Y2K, the new frontier.