Richard Ford, Novelist

First Published: The Irish Times, September 16, 2006
IT WAS cruelly hot in Jackson, Mississippi, that summer of 1952; so hot that the four blocks to the grocery store seemed interminable. The store had air-conditioning, and for the young Richard Ford and his mother, struggling on in the midday sun, that much made it the most [...]

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Glen Berger, Playwright

First Published: The Irish Times, September 16, 2006
‘In everything that I’ve written, people somehow wind up without their pants,” says Glen Berger. “It must be a Jewish thing.” Or maybe it’s an Irish thing, he reconsiders, mentioning the scene in Beckett’s Endgame where Nagg tells the story of the tailor who took longer to make [...]

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