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From the Editor-in-Chief:
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Hi Reader,
TS O'Rourke is an unusual writer in that he hates publicity. He'd rather sit in a quiet
room and belt out a few thousand words than give talks at writers' groups or offer advice on what makes a writer 'tick'.
In fact, it took some persuasions (and a few pints) to get him loosened up and ready to talk openly about his new novel
that is set to take Ireland and the world by storm this coming Easter. Let's roll
the red carpet to honour and welcome TS O'Rourke. This Big Conversation
is incisive, revealing and, believe it or not, a creative lesson on the birth of the Irish Nation.
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Our Book Reviews take a critical insight
into three books:
Stories by Doris Lessing, a writer acclaimed for her "depiction of female anger
and aggression"; Dreams of my Russian Summers by Andrei Makine, who received
both the Prix Medicis and the Prix Goncourt, the first time this double accolade has ever been awarded
to a writer; and The Republican by TS O'Rourke, a potentially great
book that has just been released into the Irish market.
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Our short stories are specifically for those who prefer to see familiar things
with unfamiliar eyes. They are highly imaginative, experimental, unconventional, unusual, unique, confounding, and
in one or two cases, even shocking:
Aingeal by Lynn Strongin,
Alicia Sturtz, Index of by Daniel Scott,
We Would Start Here by Court Merrigan,
Lebanon Bologna by Michael P. McManus
Scars That Bind by Ron Savage and
The Plenipotentiary Decision by D.W. Young.
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© 2004-2006 the Dublin Quarterly--to see familiar things with unfamiliar eyes!
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