An Irish crime writer on Irish crime writing, plus your chance to vote
Crime Always Pays links to an article in the Guardian about Brian McGilloway's top 10 modern Irish crime novels. It's nice to see what writers read. It's a sign of Irish crime fiction's vitality that comments on CAP suggest worthy candidates that could have made McGilloway's list but did not.
Click here for McGilloway-related material from Detectives Beyond Borders.
Click here for McGilloway-related material from Detectives Beyond Borders.
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In an unrelated development, a team of international election observers including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will not monitor voting for the Spinetingler Awards, where Detectives Beyond Borders is up for the Special Services to the Industry award. Vote now while you still can. © Peter Rozovsky 2009Labels: awards, Brian McGilloway, Declan Burke, Ireland
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 11:59 PM
8 Comments:
Just voted Chicago style if you know what I mean. JC might not be pleased but if its any consolation I had a Snickers bar earlier, packed with peanuts in every bite.
There's a job waiting for you in my administration, young man.
Many thanks.
BTW, a couple of weeks ago I happened to read JC's very strange children's book. The text and illustrations were quite disturbing in a way I cant really put my finger on.
That creature on the cover looks like some sort of microscopic creature. And the mental picture of a former leader of the free world pronouncing the words "Baby Snoogle" is disquieting.
It's about a woman who earns her living washing the clothes of "wealthy folks" aided by her handicapped son. One day the boy and his "friends" are on the beach when they are attacked by a sea monster. The friends leave the boy to deal with the monster alone. I know there's some kind of allegory about the Carter Administration in there but I dont know what that is either. And yeah the illustrations by Amy are weird and unwholesome. Amy dedicates the book to her cats if I recall correctly.
Disquieting ... unwholesome. I need to read some good crime fiction to cleanse my mind of this stuff.
My vote is a [word-you-cannot-say-on-network-television] valuable thing, you know.
After beholding Snoogle-Fleejer, I am forceably restrainting myself from going Oedipal on my eyes.
The thought of that grizzled presence using baby-talk is enough to make me lose my lunch. I say revoke the mofo's Nobel Peace Prize.
And thank you for your support at the polls.
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