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Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

The County Clare-born author was telling stories of women and their sex lives 50 years before Sally Rooney was bornIrish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

The Guardian - UK

My debut novel is about the female experience – please don’t reduce it to a ‘sad girl’ cliché

As Olivia Petter publishes ‘Gold Rush’, she explains why she won’t be applying literature’s most annoying trope to her work, even if others might try to

The Independent UK

We’ve reached peak tat. It’s time to turn all online shoppers like me into primeval ooze

Does anyone really need a hamster harness or a £2.93 bag of 40 miniature plastic babies that will be washing up on beaches for the next millennium?

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Sarah Jessica Parker Pairs a New Hybrid Shoe Trend With...Sally Rooney's New Book?

Forget the shoes—where can I get a copy of her book?

Marie Claire

Normal People actor to narrate Sally Rooney’s next novel

Hardwicke starred alongside Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in the 2020 drama miniseries

The Independent UK

Normal People's Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones just teased some big 'news'

Sally Rooney fans, unite

Marie Claire

Normal People stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal shock fans with ‘season two’ news

‘We’ve got some news to share,’ the actors said

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Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones Tease an Announcement: "We've Got Some News to Share"

The former 'Normal People' costars and IRL best friends seem to have a new project in the works.

Marie Claire

Sally Rooney unveils cover of new novel Intermezzo and plot that explores ‘ethical complexity’

The author’s new book will hit UK shelves in September

The Independent UK

More than 200 authors renew call for Baillie Gifford to divest from fossil fuel

Fossil Free Books’ statement also demands that the book festival sponsor stops investing in ‘companies that profit from Israeli apartheid, occupation and genocide’

The Guardian - UK

Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department review – a whole lotta love gone bad

On her 11th album, the American singer-songwriter picks apart her romantic travails in unsparing fashion, while her ability to turn sorrow into songwriting gold remains unparalleled

The Guardian - UK

Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo to be published in September

The bestselling author’s fourth novel, which will focus on two brothers, is set to be a ‘standout highlight’ of this year’s fiction titles

The Guardian - UK

Paul Mescal Says He Would 'Avoid' TV Shows. After Watching Almost Everything He’s Been In, I Couldn’t Disagree More

Paul Mescal reveals he'd 'avoid' TV in game of "Shag, Marry, Avoid" during Chicken Shop Date appearance. But I think one TV role still remains his best performance, and here's why.

Cinemablend

Meet the 10 best new novelists for 2024

Our annual pick of the most exciting debut fiction has previously tipped Sally Rooney and Louise Kennedy, Tom Crewe and Douglas Stuart. Here the class of 2024 tell us their stories

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Five Great Reads: memories of Shane, a rogue’s gallery and the democracy Super Bowl

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

Al Jazeera

As Israel bombs Gaza, Ireland’s enduring support of Palestine gets stronger

Writers, politicians, and activists in Ireland, often an outlier in the West on the Middle East war, call for peace.

The Guardian - UK

Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

The Conversation

I've had enough of Sad Bad Girl novels and sensationalised trauma – but I'm hungry for complex stories about women

Stories about flawed young women have been favoured by the publishing industry for some time now. Bad Girl novels proliferated in the wake of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, while Sad Girl novels have evolved from the comic haplessness of Bridget Jones in the 1990s, to more…

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The Walrus

Sarah Bernstein Breaks the Rules in Study for Obedience

The unnerving novel that earned two major prize nominations rattles expectations of how stories are often told

The Walrus

Why Are So Many Authors Abandoning Speech Marks?

Sally Rooney, Ian Williams, and Lauren Groff are just a few of the contemporary authors avoiding quotation marks for dialogue

The Guardian - UK

The White Review literary magazine ceases publishing

A statement cited increased costs and removal of UK state funding as the magazine, which featured writers including Paul Murray, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Sally Rooney, is to consider its future

The Guardian - UK

Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon review – dolphins, vamps and Brownies join dotty parade

From a nine-year-old misfit to Sally Rooney writing a children’s book, Skin Pigeon’s characters are pitched at a sharp angle to the real world

The Guardian - UK

Blind date: ‘Maybe he thought I was very American’

Sophie, 26, a product manager, meets Alex, 26, who works in property finance

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Liv Little’s cultural highlights

The novelist and gal-dem founder on the album she can’t stop listening to, an action film to shout about, and the perfect family-run restaurant

The Guardian - UK

Married to the mob: the rise of the smartphone in fiction

They interrupt narrative and disrupt plot – no wonder novelists have been slow to warm to mobile phones. But a new generation is putting technology at the heart of their work

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