Breakfast with brontosaurus

An interview with Harold Bloom Ieva Lesinska
via Arts & Letters Daily

The Enquiry into the clerical sexual abuse of children in the diocese of Ferns, Co Wexford, is now published and is reproduced here in full.
They are large files.
The Ferns Enquiry
The Department of Health and Children gives addresses from where a hard copy of the report can be purchased.

To all my backlogged email correspondents, in case you’re wondering why I haven’t replied, I’ve RSI - too much typing. So sorry about that. Will catch up when I can.
Anyone got a cure for RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)?

The Sea, says Banville, “is not the normal kind of Booker book”, and he hopes its success will send a long-overdue message to publishers that “literary fiction can make money. That’s very important in this image-obsessed age.”
A very much long-overdue message. Thank you, Mr Banville, for saying this. If I may be so bold, [...]

‘They said you’ve a call from the Nobel committee. I said, why?’
Harold Pinter has won the Nobel Prize, capping a week in which a retrospective of his plays was staged in the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
About the reaction of certain elements of the press, he had this to say:
They don’t like it if you don’t [...]

John Banville wins the Man Booker Prize, for his 14th novel, The Sea (Picador), with his second nomination for the prize. His first nomination, for The Book of Evidence, was 14 years ago. His wry advice to other authors was “just hang around and it will come. I hung around for many years [...]

The new The Stinging Fly, issue 2, volume 2, is now on sale.
Contributors include Simon Armitage, Siobhan Campbell, Philip Casey, Patrick Deeley, Tom Mac Intyre, Nuala Ní­ Chonchuir, Phiip Ó Ceallaigh and Sheila O’Hagan

Larks’ Eggs, Desmond Hogan’s New and Selected Stories, will be launched this evening in the Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, at 6pm.
Guest speaker Mannix Flynn.
The Lilliput Press

The Irish Times (and no doubt many other newspapers) has a beautiful composite photo of yesterdays Annunar Solar Eclipse. What music in a phrase!
note to Irish Times: Nice to be able to link to you, for once.