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Posted in Personal, Web Stuff, Work, Writing on Oct 12th, 2011
At the Tweet Treats launch, Twitter kept popping up in conversation. It being a book created through Twitter – it’s a cute stocking-stuffer with 140-character recipes from celebrity Tweeters, profits going to charity – that perhaps wasn’t surprising. Perhaps more surprising was the mix of attitudes towards it (in between wishing people had name-tags with [...]
There’s been a lot of press recently about books that sell. Books that once sold by the trolleyful in supermarkets are now being left to rot on the shelves, apparently; stores that once offered a ’3 for 2′ promotion have scaled it down to ‘Buy one, get one half price’ (same mechanism, but less of [...]
Posted in Guest Posters, Personal, Writing on Sep 26th, 2011
It’s 3.30am and I’m standing with my face pressed against the kitchen window. I don’t know why I’m drawn to stare out into the dark, maybe because it seems to answer back. Next door, someone’s watching TV, their window blind flickers in shades of grey: ash, then slate, and back. The big spruce blocks the [...]
Down These Green Streets is a new collection of short stories and non-fiction from Irish crime writers, edited by Declan Burke. In this extract, Anti-Room writer and crime novelist Arlene Hunt talks about her own relationship with crime. A Shock to the System: Irish Crime Writing and the Personal in the Political When I was [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Feminism, Film, International, Men, Rants, Sport, Writing on Jun 8th, 2011
I’m all for positive discrimination when it’s merited and, let’s face it, it very often is. Having witnessed the progress of women in Irish politics being systematically thwarted over the decades I fully support the proposed introduction of candidate quotas – many of the most enlightened and progressive democracies in the world have used them [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Books, Media, Reviews, Women, Work, Writing on Apr 28th, 2011
A few weeks ago I met a delegation of Swedish journalists on a visit to Dublin. Fresh from a visit to the Irish Times offices, they remarked on the fact that there seemed to be very few women in the newsroom. They pointed out that in Sweden, men and women are so evenly distributed across [...]
It seems like a positively antediluvian method of keeping in touch with people these days, but when I was 10 or 11, pen pals were all the rage. Of course they were the rage for a long, long time before that, too – but it saddens me that the old-fashioned pen-pal, where you actually wrote [...]
I was fascinated by this collection of photos. Writers at their work stations; creating, pondering, posing and working. The creative process in others has always held my interest, no matter the art. I am a terrible cook, but love to sit, glass of wine in hand, and watch my husband create magic in the kitchen [...]
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