AM Homes in conversation with Elif Batuman 27 April 2013

AM Homes in conversation with Elif Batuman

Event 27 April 2013 13:00- 14:00

Venue: Town Hall Theatre

ADMISSION €8/€6

A. M. Homes

 

A. M. Homes is the author of six novels – most notably May We Be Forgiven, This Book Will Save Your Life and The End of Alice, two collections of short stories, a travel memoir and the highly acclaimed memoir, The Mistress’s Daughter.

She is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and writes frequently on arts and culture for numerous magazines and newspapers.

She wrote and produced for the television series The L Word and is currently developing a major US TV series for HBO called The Hamptons. In 2012, Granta published her highly acclaimed novel: May We Be Forgiven. She lives in New York City.

May We Be Forgiven

From one of America’s most important writers comes a darkly comic tale of 21st century domestic life.

Brothers Harry and George have never been friends. Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life, while younger brother George, is a high-flying TV producer with a bullying manner and a murderous temper.

When one day George loses control and propels Harry into an entirely new life, events spiral out of control in ways that could never have been predicted. Homes has created a savage and dizzyingly inventive vision of contemporary America, whose dark heart she penetrates like no other writer.

May We Be Forgiven is a brutal, funny tale of unexpected intimacies, and of how one deeply fractured family might begin to put itself back together.

‘This novel starts at maximum force — and then it really gets going. I can’t remember when I last read a novel of such narrative intensity; an unflinching account of a catastrophic, violent, black-comic, transformative year in the history of one broken American family. Flat-out amazing .’ – Salman Rushdie

‘This prose has teeth … you cannot shake a Homes story off your mind,

you cannot rid yourself of the creeping unease it brings to your bedside table.’ -Zadie Smith

 Elif Batuman

 

Elif Batuman lives in Istanbul and is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.

Her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, was published in 2010 has been translated into ten languages. She is currently working on a novel

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Rofi James – Debut Single ‘Love Shot’ Launch Night Tommorrow Night (Friday 26th April 2013)

Event On: Friday 26th April 2013

Venue: The Cellar bar, Eglinton Street, Galway City

Starting at: 9pm/21:00

 

 

The duo  will be launching their  Debut single Love Shot on Friday the 26th of April. There will also be copies of the song on location on the night. Support will be from Galway based acts Padraig Jack and Derek Ellard.They  will hopefully see you there on the night as it will be a guaranteed good night 🙂 (Most of the information from Facebook Event description)

Facebook Event here

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The Flirt FM May live session

Event : The Flirt FM May live session

Host by Flirt FM Galway’s Premier Student Radio Station

Date : Thursday, 9 May 2013

TIme : 22:00 until 02:00

Venue: Monroe’s Live

Dominic st. Galway City

Bands on the night :

Flirt FM  are bringing you a selection of music from Ireland featuring

Superblondes : Superblondes have toured extensively around the country and shared stages with artists such as We Cut Corners, Grant Hart(Husker Du), Alabama 3, The Minutes, And So I Watch You From Afar, Reverend & The Makers, Squarehead, Fight Like Apes and Delorentos as well as playing slots at Hard Working Class Heroes and Indiependence. The quintet’s debut EP and single is now available as a download/hard copy from

http://www.superblondesmusic.bandcamp.com

Stephen k : Born in Ireland and raised in America, all this has gone towards giving his music a true Irish/American story telling style!

and last but not least:

Mark Connolly

Fliirt FM has already held two of same event already this year and if they were anything to go by according to sources  the roof shall be raised and the more the merrier people in other words a great night will be had 🙂

More Information available here

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Crime writers from Ireland, Sweden and Finland on Crime Writers Panel at Cuirt 2013

Event: 27 Apr 13 18:30- 20:30                                   

Venue : Town Hall Theatre, Galway City

Admission €8/€6

The Authers appearing at 2013 Harvill Secker Crime Panel at Cuirt in The Town Hall  Theatre on Saturday 27th of April 

On Saturday Evening of April 27th , Arlene Hunt will host a panel of crime writers including Stuart Neville (Ireland), Arne Dahl (Sweden) and Antti Tuomainen (Finland).

Arlene Hunt (Chairperson)

Arlene Hunt is the author of seven crime fiction novels, five of which feature the popular Quick Investigation duo, John Quigley and Sarah Kenny. She is also the co-owner of Portnoy Publishing.

She lived in Barcelona for five years and now resides in Dublin. Her books have been translated into three languages and her current novel – a stand alone set in the US – entitled The Chosen, was voted as TV3’s Book of the Month for November 2011. An earlier novel, Undertow (2008), was short listed for best crime novel at The Irish Book Awards. Arlene has also contributed to many anthologies, including, Down These Green Streets, Requiems for the Departed and Console.

Stuart Neville

Stuart Neville’s debut novel, The Twelve (published in the USA as The Ghosts of Belfast), won the Mystery/Thriller category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was picked as one of the top crime novels of 2009 by both The New York Times and The LA Times.
He has been shortlisted for various awards, including the Barry, Macavity, Dilys awards, as well as the Irish Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year. He has twice been longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. He has since published two critically acclaimed sequels, Collusion and Stolen Souls.
Stuart’s novels have been translated into various languages, including German, Japanese, Polish, Swedish, Greek and more. The French edition of The Ghosts of Belfast, Les Fantômes de Belfast, won Le Prix Mystère de la Critique du Meilleur Roman Étranger and Grand Prix du Roman Noir Étranger.
His fourth novel, Ratlines, about Nazis harboured by the Irish state following WWII was published by Harvill Secker in January 2013.

“Ratlines is a belter: fast, furious, bloody and good.”- Ian Rankin

“Just three books in and Stuart Neville is already a crime-writing star.” – Mark Billingham

Arne Dahl

Arne Dahl is an award-winning Swedish crime novelist and literary critic. The Blinded Man is the first book in the internationally acclaimed Intercrime series. The highly praised series of ten novels has sold more than 2.5 million copies and has won its creator such distinguished awards as the premier crime writing awards in Germany, Denmark and Sweden. In 2007 The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers awarded Arne Dahl a special prize for his “vitalization and development of the crime genre through his Intercrime series”. The second book in the series, Bad Blood, will by published by Harvill Secker in 2013.

‘Thoughtfully haunting and sometimes beautifully written, the first of Hjelm’s cases to be translated into English is likely to resonate with readers of the Stieg Larsson trilogy.”— Austin American-Statesman

“ Mystery devotees who loved Mankell’s Kurt Wallander, and crime-fiction ‘lifers’ who still treasure Sjowall’s and Wahloo’s Martin Beck, will want to add Paul Hjelm to their short lists of international favourites.”— Booklist

Antti Tuomainen

Antti Tuomainen was born in 1971 and lives in Helsinki. He was an award-winning copywriter in the advertising industry before he made his literary debut in 2007. In 2011 his third novel, The Healer, was awarded the Clue Award for ‘Best Finnish Crime Novel 2011’. The Finnish press labelled it “unputdownable” and critics praised his piercing and evocative style acknowledging him as one of the first writers to challenge the Scandinavian crime genre formula. The Healer was shortlisted for the Glass Key Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel in 2012 (previous winners include Henning Mankell, Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbo, Arnaldur Indridason, Karin Fossum and HakanNesser).

“Breathtakingly tense, with the taste of blood on every page. It is impossible to stop reading until you reach the end.”.. – Turun Sanomat

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Cuirt main event looks to be a great night of poetry as two poets share same stage

Event 24 April 2013 20.30 – 22:30
Venue: Town Hall Theatre, Galway City

SOLD OUT

Tomorrow night the Town Hall Theatre is the place to be as friends and former members of Philip Hobsbaum’s poetry circle in Belfast unite on the one stage and a great night of poetry is in store no doubt. This event is preceded by the Official Opening of the Cúirt International Festival  of Literature 2013 in the Hotel Meyrick in Eyre Square in Galway City at a quarter past 6 and  concluding at a quarter past eight .President of  Ireland  Michael D. Higgins, himself a poet, will officially open Cúirt this year .

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection appeared in 1966, since then he has also published criticism and translations – including critically acclaimed Beowulf translation  (1999) – which have established him as one of the leading poets now at work.
In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Stepping Stones, a book of interviews with Dennis O’Driscoll, appeared in 2008 and his most recent book of poems Human Chain (2010) was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize.

Michael Longley

Michael Longley has published nine poetry collections, among them Gorse Fires (1991), winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award, and The Weather in Japan (2000) which won the Hawthorn Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Irish Times Poetry Prize. His Collected Poems was published by Jonathan Cape in 2006.

His most recent collection A Hundred Doors won the 2011 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In 2001 he received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. He was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2007 to 2010. He is at present working on a new collection and a memoir.
His selection of Robert Graves’s poems will be published by Faber in June 2013.