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Nicole Flattery

Nicole Flattery's criticism has appeared in the GuardianThe Irish Times and the LRB. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time was published in 2019. Her favourite Chantal Akeman film is News From Home.



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Chantal Akerman’s ‘My Mother Laughs’

Book Review

October 2019

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

October 2019

There’s a scene in the documentary I Don’t Belong Anywhere, about the Belgian filmmaker’s Chantal Akerman’s life and work, where she discusses her only...

Book Review

August 2018

Lorrie Moore's ‘See What Can Be Done’

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

August 2018

Lorrie Moore writes in her introduction to See What Can Be Done that, at the start of her career,...

Eimear McBride’s first book, the radically experimental A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, was written when she was 27 and published in June 2013 to great critical acclaim There have to date been no dissenting voices – McBride has arrived as a fully-formed talent who has created a new form of prose which deploys a spartan lexicon in fragmentary vernacular syncopations to represent the form of thought at the point before it becomes articulate speech The impact on the reader is direct and convincing and frequently overwhelming Few literary debuts in recent years have been so assured Her writing combines the beautiful, the outrageous, the harrowing, the farcical and the heartbreaking in a courageously original, wholly uncommercial style, uncompromisingly experimental and an important addition to the literary avant-garde, its roots in 1920s modernism but also in contemporary life   McBride was born in Liverpool to Northern Irish parents in 1976, one of four children and the only girl In 1979 the family moved to Tubbercurry, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland Her father died when she was 8 and in 1991 her mother moved the family to Castlebar, County Mayo At the age of 17 she left Ireland for London and spent the next three years studying at Drama Centre About six months after finishing the course her older brother Donagh became terminally ill and she spent most of the following year travelling back and forth to Ireland and the final four months there full time In 2000 she spent four months in St Petersburg and the next few years were spent working as an office temp and travelling, mostly in Eastern Europe   We had met twice before she agreed to an interview – briefly after a reading at a North London literary festival (her first public appearance) and a month later when I was invited by the publishers to contribute to the London launch of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing This interview is based on a series of email exchanges in August 2013 The growing media interest surrounding her book, the extraordinary reaction of readers and reviewers, complex negotiations with

Contributor

January 2018

Nicole Flattery

Contributor

January 2018

Nicole Flattery’s criticism has appeared in the Guardian, The Irish Times and the LRB. Her story collection Show Them A Good...

Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Her Body and Other Parties’

Book Review

January 2018

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

January 2018

I’m reluctant to admit this but it’s often easier for me to write about a book I hated rather than a book I loved....

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Essay

Issue No. 18

The Disquieting Muses

Leslie Jamison

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   In Within Heaven and Hell (1996), Ellen Cantor’s voice-over tells the story of a doomed love affair...

feature

September 2014

Missing Footage

Raphael Rubinstein

feature

September 2014

The discovery of absences (lacks, lacunae) and their definition must in turn lead the filmmaker as composer to the...

poetry

March 2017

Two Poems

Uljana Wolf

TR. Sophie Seita

poetry

March 2017

Mittens   winter came, stretched its frames, wove misty threads into the damp   wood. fogged windows, we didn’t...

 

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