The Tin Man (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
A writing coach I’ve met with a few times, Nancy Rawlinson, has just started a blog about “books, literature, publishing and the creative process.” Some good stuff up there so far. She links to a piece by writer Anne Enright, who says: Over the years, you learn to keep your emotions in the place [...]
51stories (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
The Sunday Salon – 13 July 2008 It is curious how the books you read at any one time influence your own writing and your approach to writing. I picked up Anne Enright’s The Gathering at the beginning of the week from the pile of books that’s currently on my desk, all tbr. I don’t know [...]
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you. Get over it. Is the piece you've written wonderful, or is it shit? Anne Enright in today's Guardian talks about how writers have to learn to keep emotions in place .
The Fidra Blog (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
At this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival you can hear such luminaries as Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Rick Wakeman, Terry Pratchett and many more talking about their books and the wider literary world. There’s a schools’ event on the 26th August where you will be able to catch me introducing the very lovely [...]
Tusitala - Teach! Teach! Teach (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Death makes convention irrelevant. The complexity of grief makes everything a possibility, except of course for the resurrection of the dead. This story of Enright is delivered through the surreal tonality of the left behind-and- lost protagonist Catherine. Catherine has buried her mother and spends a working weekend in the company of her boss, a known philanderer. Yet her seemingly incongruous decision...
Buzz Girl (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
D.S. will be on maternity leave this summer. Scott M. will take over while she’s gone. Coming in September 2008 Yesterday's Weather by Anne Enright. A new collection of short stories by the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Coming in October 2008 Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart by Tim Butcher. The story of Butcher’s trip in Africa retracing Stanley’s 1874 expedition to map the
Trashionista (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
I don't particularly want to read Anne Enright's Booker winning The Gathering - sounds way too bleak for me - but I've had her pregnancy and parenting memoir, Making Babies on the shelf for a while now so I finally...
Elizabeth Baines (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
Speaking of 'inspiration' : Nick Laird follows Anne Enright in the new Guardian Author, Author slot with an endorsement of her account of the process of beginning writing a piece as fundamentally unwilled and out of the author's conscious control. (Can't find a link, I'm afraid.) However, Laird is only speaking for poetry, the conception of which he says has 'no aspect of choice': The right words...
ximblr.com (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
The line-up for the Dublin Writers’ Festival this week has been impressive and one event tonight at 8pm in the Project is a must.Anne Enright, whose recent book of short stories attracted rave reviews, will discuss the genre with American Tobias Wolff, whose collection of short stories is reviewed on p19.Those in need of a [...]
Elizabeth Baines (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Anne Enright writes about the difficulty of starting a novel, and the tricky conditions required for doing so, including one's own emotional relationship to the material. What comes over is an impression that the ability to get going on a piece is not ultimately under the author's conscious control or will. I've written something similar on this blog, but after reading the Enright piece I got to thinking...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
ANNE ENRIGHT was last night named the 2008 winner of the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award at the opening of the annual Listowel Writers’ Week for her novel The Gathering.
Elizabeth Baines (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Jenny looked pretty intent as we gathered in her living room, and when we were all seated she asked in some disgust, 'Who chose this ?' I think she thought it was me, since when Clare had offered it as one of her two alternative suggestions I'd persuaded everyone to choose it over the other possible book. Clare looked a bit non plussed, but went ahead with her admiring introduction. She thought it...
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The hard working writer, Dermot Bolger has been working with the Irish Writers Centre to bring some readings from Irish novelists, in conversation with himself.Anne Enright is among the authors due to read during the series in the autumn.The programme for the first series (May-July) is as follows:May20 Jennifer Johnston June3 Roddy Doyle 17 Colm Tóibín July 1 Joseph O’Connor 15 Claire Kilroy 29 Glenn...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Anne Enright explores the lurid secrets of Ireland's boomtown with a mordant PI in Declan Hughes's The Dying Breed
The Sigla Blog (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
The third Irish Book Awards were held last night, and there were some very worthy winners. Anne Enright picked up Novel of the Year for The Gathering and I was delighted to see Julia Kelly win Best Newcomer for her book With My Lazy Eye. Dermot Ferriter picked up three gongs for his book, Judging [...]
