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Edna O’Brien’s ‘Joyce’s Women’ // Abbey Theatre Review Joyce’s Women ought to have been titled Joyce Framed by his Women

PHOTO: Genevieve Hulme-Beaman as Lucia Joyce and Stephen Hogan as James Joyce in Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh Edna O’Brien’s involvement with James Joyce began far earlier than her publication of James and Nora in 1981, and her subsequent … Continue reading Edna O’Brien’s ‘Joyce’s Women’ // Abbey Theatre Review Joyce’s Women ought to have been titled Joyce Framed by his Women

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The Fictionalisation of Women Authors I came to realise this I didn’t see Eve Babitz as a person at all, but as a fiction.

Photo by Morgan Sessions from unsplash.com.   I was halfway through Eve Babitz’s book I Used To Be Charming when the author died. Aside from the inevitable sadness at the loss of a talented writer, my main reaction to the … Continue reading The Fictionalisation of Women Authors I came to realise this I didn’t see Eve Babitz as a person at all, but as a fiction.