Sinéad Gleeson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Sinéad Gleeson

Shirley Jackson was born on this day in 1916. When she was in hospital to give birth to the third of her four children, she was asked her occupation. Jackson said: “Writer” The clerk replied: “I’ll just put down housewife". (Read @ruth_franklin’s book) https://t.co/suOOoMx5qm

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For @bloomsdayfilmf1, I’m interviewing Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Eva H. D. (whose poem Bonedog was used in I’m Thinking of Ending Things) about their new film Jackals and Fireflies. June 15th @IFI_Dub https://t.co/bXsnyuEWsN https://t.co/3EOx7pb9BQ

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Fascinating interview with @Doug_D_Stuart by @elainefeeney16 — on class, industrialisation, addiction, working class writing, privilege, writing fictional sons within patriarchy, rejection - 40+ publishers rejected Shuggie Bain before it won the @TheBookerPrizes. @TheeDaniMagic https://t.co/P1mNYwaYgR

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@Chitgrrl @JohannaTC @JessicaTraynor6 @MissLizBerry @claudiadey TY C. x I ran out of room to mention Cacophony of Bone (out today!) by @kerri_ni, Mothers by Jacqueline Rose, Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk, Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill, Eula Bias’ On Immunity, Enright’s Making Babies, Motherhood by @DrPragyaAgarwal and Morrison’s Beloved.

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An autobiographical fever dream of a book, moving through post-partum psychosis and the powerlessness of asylum patients amid a polyphonic world of noisy delusions. Echoes of the hallucinatory classic The Yellow Wallpaper & Eimear McBride’s prose in A Girl is A Half-Formed thing. https://t.co/bVPFBvvlId

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@cd_clifford @jeansvaljeans TY Christen. So many favourites are already listed (inc @alexanderchee @lsjamison Baldwin, Didion) so: Orwell, Sontag, Janet Malcolm; Feel Free by Zadie Smith, Too Much and Not the Mood by @durgapolashi, Hilton Als’ White Girls and Ok, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea by Patrick Freyne.

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Tomorrow, @KennedyLoulou's superb debut novel Trespasses is published in the US. Here's a profile in @nytimesbooks: https://t.co/WI7IJoMq7j @riverheadbooks

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And happy publication day to @bansheelit co-editor @eimear_ryan. The Grass Arena is a memoir of playing GAA, self-expression, misogyny in sport - Eimear writes brilliantly. Kevin Barry will launch the book next Wednesday at @WaterstonesCrk https://t.co/h1TJx1MsLH @PenguinIEBooks https://t.co/lLU5DvZwX0

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⚽️ If you’d like to hear me talk about my lifelong love of football, and explain why I have a 36-piece jigsaw of me and Roy Keane, tune in to @SecondCaptains on New Years Eve, alongside Roddy Doyle on @RTERadio1 at 1pm. Thanks to @Younghorgan @saveciaranmurph @EoinMcDevitt ⚽️ https://t.co/6cqOEOlG3K

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Fancy new arrivals: * Motherland, a novel by Tetyana Denford * Breasts and Eggs, by Mieko Kawakami (have heard many good things). Out May, @picadorbooks * Blueberries by Ellena Savage (essays) * Guest House for Young Widows by @AzadehMoaveni (@RathbonesFolio shortlisted) https://t.co/jm1HIQ5Dl0

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