Dickon Edwards of the Dandy Underground Surfaces
Dandy diarist extraordinaire Dickon Edwards talks about how his diary writing is a queer, articulate, and pointed retort to the pressures of conformity.
Reggie Chamberlain-King
Reggie Chamberlain-King is a writer from Northern Ireland. He has
published three books with Blackstaff Press - Weird Belfast; Weird
Dublin; and The Black Dreams: Strange Stories from Northern Ireland.
His show, Surrealist’s Map of Ireland, can be heard on BBC Radio 4.
John Patrick Higgins’ Spinal Fantasy
Humor writer John Patrick Higgins talks about the fading art of painful self-deprecation and other sore subjects in his new “Misery Memoir”, Spine.
Fitz-James O’Brien’s Exuberant Morbidity
Fitz-James O’Brien’s exuberantly morbid stories, set amongst mid-century New York’s boarding houses and alleyways, are works of comic skepticism and cosmic messiness.
In Northern Ireland, Absence Makes the Heart Feel More Deeply
Writers like Jan Carson understand that, in the absence of the Troubles, people of Northern Ireland may not know who they are, culturally or artistically, or may struggle to articulate who they are without it.
John Patrick Higgins’ ‘Fine’ Hangs on in Quiet Desperation
The lives of middle-aged men are to John Patrick Higgins as the statue of Ozymandias was to Shelley: epic, broken, and tragi-comic monuments to quiet desperation.
The Tooth Hurts: John Patrick Higgins on Pain and Porcelain
John Patrick Higgins chatters about his newfound porcelain immortality and the tooth hurt endured for his new book, Teeth: An Oral History.
Waxing Moustaches: A Hair-Brained Interview with Humourist Aug Stone
What do sports, music, comedy, and neuroplasticity have to do with waxing moustaches? This hair-brained interview with humourist Aug Stone explains.
Two Men in a Tub: A Sudsy Interview with Humorist Robert Wringham
Robert Wringham’s Rub-A-Dub-Dub slips neck-deep into the wet hot mess of middle-age angst. From the comfort of his bath, so to speak, he talks about it.