The Bee Sting by Paul Murray: Hugely entertaining tragicomic fiction about painful family dynamics
An ambitious, expansive novel where the darkness is never too far away
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An ambitious, expansive novel where the darkness is never too far away
Murray’s brilliant new novel, about a rural Irish clan, is pure pleasure and posits the author as Dublin’s answer to Jonathan Franzen
Author talks the dark world of his latest novel, spending time in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse and why he always feels he has to dig himself out of a hole
The Irish novelist on his wife’s response to his darkly comic new book, the ghosts that haunt his country, his love of Thomas Pynchon and distrust of Dickens
Acclaimed Irish author Paul Murray and innovative historian Guy Beiner will be featured speakers at two events this month sponsored through the Boston College Irish Studies Program.Murray, who is at BC this fall as the Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, will present the Burns Scholar Lecture, “How to Write a Novel,” on November 9 at 5:30 p.m. in the Thompson Room of the