I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

The contemporary American novelist benefits in a way from being ignored. It makes you angrier and makes you want to go into all of those places where you shouldnt.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.

He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.