Beckett, Rhyme and Reason: Meeting Paul Muldoon’s Rackett

First Published: The Irish Times, August 22, 2007
IT’S A SUNNY Saturday afternoon in Princeton, New Jersey, with students slowly beginning to drift back to the campus of spires and towers for another year of learning. Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer prize-winning poet who has taught at the university for more than 15 years, and who currently [...]

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Arthur Miller’s Family Secret

First Published: The Irish Times, August 18, 2007
THE EULOGIES were eloquent, emotional, intense. They told of a life and of an art remarkable for its integrity, for its commitment to empathy and to truth; they showed a man and a writer battling against social and political injustice, against dishonesty, against discrimination. Arthur Miller was “the [...]

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Edmund White, Novelist and Essayist

First Published: The Irish Times, August 11, 2007
‘Oh dear,” says Edmund White, as we sit down over miniature china tea-cups and enormous pastel-coloured cupcakes in his Chelsea apartment on a blisteringly hot summer afternoon. “Oh god, let’s hope I’m not sued by Gore Vidal.”
We haven’t even started the interview, and already White has had his [...]

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