Sinéad Gleeson’s blog
Today is World Book Day so here are 10 random book-related links:
1) You’ve watched the TV programme, now read the book: Boy A has won the inaugural Books to Talk About award announced to coincide with WBD.
2) Eloise Miller reminds me how much I loved Lolly Willowes. Must dig that out and reread it.
3) […]
This morning’s post brought a couple of packages that were sent to The Irish Times for me. One is from a US Management company and concerns a young singer/songwriter they would like to bring to my attention. Having gone to the trouble to get a journalist’s name rather than sending in a CD randomly and […]
Just as the paper demise of Mongrel and Foggy Notions has been announced (FN will still be online, but I’ll miss those free CDs), today State Magazine hits the shelves.
Declaration of interest: the recent London day of hell was to interview Goldfrapp for the magazine.
Apart from that I got my paws on it at […]
“Why are there no great female painters?”
Apparently all will be revealed in this Sunday’s Observer. Now, while I don’t expect the critics the paper polled to mention Mainie Jellett, Norah McGuinness or most of these women, surely Frida Kahlo would be considered a great female painter?
Experts will providing answers to that and questions like “What […]
Annette recently confessed that she’s addicted to Smith Magazine’s Six Word Memoirs, and challenges people to come up their life manifesto in the same amount of words.
I’ve posted before about Six Word Short Stories, and both the idea of summing up a person or a narrative in six words reminds me of something I read […]
*It’s no mean feat winning a prize like this, congrats to Super Extra Bonus Party who pulled off yet another upset for the Choice Music Prize. I met someone last night who has had money on all the winners since 2006 - all outsiders. Lucky git. Next year I’m betting on whoever is the equivalent […]
Starting tomorrow (Monday 25th), tune into Women’s Hour Drama on BBC Radio 4 to hear the radio version of Black Narcissus. I’ve never read the novel, but Powell and Pressburger’s film version is hugely affecting. It’s a psychological, eerie film about an order of nuns in the Himalayas being thwarted by desire, lack […]
Forgive the over-enthusiasm of the post slug, but I stand by it after spending the last week listening to the wondrous beauty and head-scratching genius of Chequerboard’s new album. A review is pending so I won’t say much, but four of the best tracks - ‘Ornithopter’, ‘Toy Winds’, ‘Quotidian Debris’ and ‘The Winter Arcade’ are […]
That’s the question the folk at the Man Booker Prize are asking. Just as they did with the ‘Booker of Bookers’ when the prize was 25 years old, now they’re asking the public to vote for their favourite* to mark the 40th anniversary in a ‘Best of the Booker’ competition. One of my all time […]
The Irish Blog Awards are far from a sinking ship, but this year it seems to be springing leaks all over the place.
Here’s the longlist for Best Designed Blog:
www.primalsneeze.com
www.annierhiannon.blogspot.com
www.thechancer.ie
www.irishkc.com
www.kimotay.com/phototay
www.kenmc.com
www.goodonpaper.org
www.homebug.net
www.irishelection.com
www.davidbehan.com
www.greetingsearthlings.net
www.bt2.typepad.com/guru
www.magooo.org
www.beaut.ie
www.theredscrapbook.blogspot.com
www.poetryireland.ie/
www.irelandlogue.com
www.design-undercover.blogspot.com
www.thedossingtimes.com
www.themenace.com
www.fustar.info
www.sabrinadent.com
www.sluggerotoole.com
www.clamnuts.com/rants
www.words.iced-coffee.com
www.nialler9.com/blog/
The Goldfrapp interview and London day-of-hell (due to closed runways, not Alison) last week are for the forthcoming first issue of State Magazine. The print version hits the shelves on March 6th, but in the meantime, the website has just gone live in the last few minutes. They’ve got an interview with Hot Chip and […]
Dorothy Parker astutely remarked that “Writing is the art of applying one’s ass to the seat.” Anyone who has attempted this will know that rearranging your CDs/books/cleaning products alphabetically becomes very pressing when you try to sit down and write creatively. But shackling yourself to a desk and suffering for your art might just be […]