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The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to pull off and swallow one... →
As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.
At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader... →
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.
Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
Thinking you're a genius is death.
Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence... →
I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong to the literary world, however... →
I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the... →