2018: A Round-Up

As is traditional, here’s a quick round-up of stuff I did this year.

For this blog, back in February, I watched all 629 then-extant episodes of The Simpsons and wrote a piece about it.

For the Spring issue of The Dublin Review I wrote an essay about my experiences working in the call centre of a major provider of TV and broadband (“In the Call Centre”).

A short story, “A Theft,” appeared in Issue 6 of Banshee.

I wrote an essay about Norman Mailer’s work of the 1960s for The Dublin Review of Books.

For the Words Ireland website, I wrote about Anne Enright’s event at the National Day for Writers.

For Literary Review, I wrote about Joseph O’Neill’s short story collection Good Trouble and Gary Shteyngart’s novel Lake Success.

I contributed op ed pieces to The Irish Times and The Times (Ireland).

For The Millions, I wrote a piece about Don DeLillo.

For this blog, I wrote about Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix).

For the EFACIS Kaleidoscope website, I wrote an essay about writing.

And for The Sunday Business Post, I interviewed Patrick McCabe (about his novel Heartland) and Dermot Bolger (about his novel An Ark of Light).