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.
This September, Sally Rooney’s third novel Beautiful World, Where Are You will be released. After the immense success of Normal People and Conversations with Friends, it is an understatement to say that there is hype around the book. Coming up … Continue reading The Sally Rooney Revolution
Content warning: references mental health issues and disordered eating. Being young and beautiful takes precision that you must never mention. Have you ever wondered how to attract the great love of your life, be a creative scholar, all while remaining … Continue reading Sally Rooney-inspired Normal Diets for Normal Girls and Boys A satirical look at Sally Rooney’s most commonly-used tropes to achieve peak main character status.
Originally published in print November 2020. When Sally Rooney’s debut was released, she was “the Salinger for the Snapchat generation”. When Naoise Dolan’s first book was published, The Irish Times promised Exciting Times would “fill the Sally Rooney-shaped hole in … Continue reading The Weirdness of Capitalism in ‘Conversations with Friends’ and ‘Exciting Times’
The premier date for the TV adaption of Sally Rooney’s Normal People is quickly approaching. All twelve episodes of the BBC/Hulu show will be released on BBC Three (UK only) on 26 April and on the Hulu streaming service on … Continue reading The Sally Rooney Reading List
A native of Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Sally Rooney was born in 1991 to a father who worked for Telecom Éireann and a mother who ran the local arts centre. Both were avid readers, and Rooney grew up in a house … Continue reading Sally Rooney, Voice of a Generation
If you thought the awe and adrenaline of awards season was locked up in an Oscar-shaped vault until next spring, think again. The Man Booker Prize 2018 longlist, which celebrates a selection of the year’s best novels published in Ireland … Continue reading The Man Booker Prize Longlist 2018 Trinity graduate and Mayo native Sally Rooney is tied for the youngest writer on this year’s longlist.
The book: For a thought-provoking and fast read, look no further than Trinity alumna Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends. The book follows 21-year-old Frances, an English student at Trinity College who has an affair with an older married man. It … Continue reading A Book, A Nook, A Cup: Autumn in Dublin Get cosy
‘I’m a lot tamer than Jack Kerouac – he did loads of drugs,’ replied author Sally Rooney when asked about her hours spent toiling at the writer’s desk. At Belvedere House for the Dublin International Literature Festival to promote her … Continue reading ILF Dublin Highlights: Sally Rooney in Conversation
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen my boyfriend was having a tough time with exams, I had only one solution: to buy tickets to see Colm Tóibín in conversation with Sinéad Crowley as part of the International Literature Festival. It’s the reasonable thing that … Continue reading Highlights: International Literature Festival Dublin
Literature editor Sarah Upton recently sat down with writer Sally Rooney, a graduate of English Studies at Trinity College. Her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, was bought by Faber and is set for publication in June. Here Rooney discusses her influences, … Continue reading 5 Questions for an Author: Sally Rooney