In life, there are always big questions. But where can you find the big answers? From your local indie bookseller, of course! In this monthly feature, some of our favorite booksellers will… Read more »

Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »

It’s not so surprising that admirers of a famous person’s work can become interested in that person’s personal life. Maybe they want to further explore what makes their favorite playwright… Read more »

This is the third year of “Happy Days,” the annual Beckett festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, and this year the festival has a new addition: the first-ever Yiddish production of… Read more »

When Samuel Beckett submitted his story collection More Pricks Than Kicks in 1933 to his publisher, Charles Prentice of Chatto & Windus, Prentice asked Beckett to add one more story… Read more »

Two years after the death of its legendary publisher Barney Rosset (who our publisher Dennis Johnson eulogized here on MobyLives), the archives of Grove Press have been opened up to… Read more »

Irish literature will have its own Laureate from 2014. The Art Council of Ireland, together with University College Dublin and New York University will give one Irish writer the title,… Read more »

Ireland’s Republican party, Fianna Fáil, has introduced a motion to disband the Irish Censorship of Publications Board which, if successful, would end just under a century of literary censorship. The… Read more »

Hard on the heels of the news this week that a never-before-seen-by-the-public collection of documents by Franz Kafka and Max Brod may at last be released to the Israeli National… Read more »

He was born on this day in 1906 in a part of Dublin called Foxrock. For this reader, Beckett was one of the first modernists to truly demonstrate and electrify… Read more »