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Nothing Special, by Nicole Flattery. Bloomsbury, 2023. 240 pages.A BRIGHT AND TROUBLED INGENUE has made it to New York City. What now? Nicole Flattery’s debut novel—the Irish writer’s first book was a short-story collection, Show Them a Good Time (2019)—is artfully withholding at the levels of period language and the particularities of its setting. But its protagonist, Mae, who is seventeen in 1967, arrives with obvious narrative precursors: the Joan Didion of “Goodbye to All That;” Sylvia Plath’s stand-in, Esther Greenwood, in The Bell Jar; Therese Belivet in Patricia Highsmith...

A collection of new writing celebrating and reflecting on life in the Coolcotts area of Wexford town has been launched in the town library. Commissioned by Wexford Libraries and funded by the Creative Ireland, Creativity in Older Age scheme, Our FABulous Place features a collection of stories documenting the social history of the estates of Ferndale, Ashfield and Belvedere, told by those who moved into the area in the late 1970s

Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, "Brigid Berlin: The Heaviest" is currenly on view at Vito Schnabel's downtown gallery in New York.

Opening at a href= http://vitoschnabel.com target= _blank Vito Schnabel Gallery /a ’s Clarkson Street space on June 23, 2023, Brigid Berlin: T

For someone who has partied with Mick Jagger, Cher, and a laundry list of other celebrities, artists, socialites, fashion designers, and the odd roya