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My wife glazes over when I talk about my writing. How can I come to terms with her indifference?

Your persona as an author is in the public domain, so perhaps your wife wants to keep the private you to herself

The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2024

Gabrielle Carey's affectionate life of James Joyce is a story of contingency, vulnerability and sadness

Gabrielle Carey cast a distinctive shadow within Australian writing, one you miss acutely only when it is no longer bodily present, even as elements of her essence remain as words on the page.

The Conversation · Oct 29, 2023

Penelope Unbound by Mary Morrissy review – masterly alternative life of Nora Barnacle

What if James Joyce and his great love had split up at the start? Morrissy’s reimagining is a stylistic tour de force that the man himself would have surely admired

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2023