Faber & Faber

…after four days of bed rest, liquids etc. Infirmities permitting, tomorrow we’ll be in Kilmainham filming a short piece on L. Cohen’s Old Ideas for RTE’s The Works. Meanwhile, here’s our review of William Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor, which ran in Saturday’s Irish Times. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0204/1224311231471.html William Gibson reads from Distrust That Particular Flavor

Back from Belturbet for a three day breather before returning to work with Kevin McCann on Coma next week. Auditions very interesting. Writing for radio is a whole other thing. You’re finding words for the larynx, not the page. Meanwhile, our review of Alex MacLeod’s short story collection Light Lifting is in today’s Irish Times. [...]

Off to Beturbet for a week to work on Coma with Mr Kevin McCann. Rewrites and auditions. Keep her lit. Meanwhile… http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/18/willpower-roy-baumeister-john-tierney-review Will Self on internet psychosis

Took ourselves off to see The Iron Lady last night (and not ‘cos we thought it was an Iron Man sequel). Meryl played a blinder. But why devote half the film to Alzheimer’s hallucinations while skimming over Thatcher’s rise to power, the hunger strikes, the battles with the trade unions & the miners, the Big [...]

Well friends, it’s been a fast few months in the Revelatorium. Apologies for sporadic blogging, but the latter half of 2011 was heavy harvesting and sowing season, and a man cannot serve too many masters. Progress report in a nutshell: the Rev Murphy relocated to a 400-year-old house in the country in October (took a [...]

Christopher Hitchens passed away late last week. Those of us in the Revelatorium remember him as one of our most formidable interviews. May he rest in peace. http://www.hotpress.com/archive/2933126.html

A moment’s silence please for the great Russell Hoban, author of Riddley Walker, one of the greatest novels of the last 50 years. He passed away on Tuesday in London, at the age of 86. Godspeed.

Greetings brothers & sisters. The Revelatorium has been offline for a spell… Many interesting developments behind the velvet curtains. Bear with us & transmissions will recommence in time for the new year. At ease, smoke ‘em if you have ‘em. Over & out.

Habibi By Craig Thompson Faber, 672pp. £20 ON BLOGS, in op-ed pieces and in message-board threads, the novel-is-dead knell goes out at least once a year. Popular fiction, sigh the intelligentsia, is no more than an excuse for ladies of leisure to take tea at the monthly book-club meet. The Literary Novel, once a fearsome [...]

The Second Coming, circa ’73. Richard Nixon, the CIA and William Butler Yeats.watch?v=JWRVyaKnGcA