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Review of Greetings etc

I’ve been a fan of The Short Review for many years. It’s an independent resource of reviews, interviews and links all to do with the short story, set up by Tania Hershman, and is now run by Diane Becker. I’ve done several reviews for it myself over the years.

My short story collection Greetings Hero in turn is reviewed here by Cath Barton. Delighted with this surprise review more than two years after the book appeared.

Do I detect the 2017/2018 Zeitgeist at work in the sentence:

O’Reilly’s focus is on men’s actions, men’s views, men’s justifications. Although he does not condone what men do …

where ‘what men do’ without further qualification is understood to be reprehensible?

Selected Posts

  • Stinging Fly Wheldon essay
    2017-07-24
  • Backstory of a book
    2019-02-22
  • My story in Litro magazine
    2017-01-08
  • The Blocks by Karl Parkinson
    2016-10-02
  • Iron Towns by Anthony Cartwright
    2016-10-02
  • London Trip
    2016-09-05
  • Honest Ulsterman interview
    2016-02-29
  • Irish Examiner review
    2015-03-30
  • Greetings, Hero launch Hodges Figgis
    2014-11-21

Selected pages

  • Debut book
  • Events, readings, etc.
  • Launched by Kevin Barry
  • Publications

Crucial

  • . .
  • Asylum books
  • Buy the book at Kennys
  • Daniel Seery
  • David Mohan
  • Djelloul Marbrook
  • Gorse magazine
  • Slava Nesterov Artist
  • The Penny Dreadful
  • The road to publication
  • The Short Review
  • The Short Review
  • Unthology

Other links

  • . .
  • Karl Parkinson's The Blocks
  • Unthology 4 review
  • Wandering minstrel Larry Beau

What I'm up to

  • Buy the book at Kennys
  • Examiner review
  • Irish Times / Ashley Stokes
  • Irish Times Q+A Irish Times Q+A
  • The road to publication

Recent posts

  • Writers’ Workbench, Block T
  • Irish Times classics revisited
  • Backstory of a book
  • Writers’ Workbench course with Keegan & myself Writers’ Workbench course with Keegan & myself
  • Winter Papers
  • Noel Duffy’s poetry collection Noel Duffy’s poetry collection

Quotation

The Tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction