Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
Colm ToibinI think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
Colm ToibinThe old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.
Colm Toibin