Writer Kevin Barry on fancy chocolates, Cuchullain’s heroic diet, and naked seething ambition.
Kevin Barry’s novel, City of Bohane, has just been published in the U.S. It was shortlisted for both the Irish Novel of the Year and the Costa First Novel Award in 2011. His debut story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2007. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, the Granta Book of the Irish Short Story, Best European Fiction 2011, and many other journals and anthologies. He also writes plays and screenplays. He lives in County Sligo.