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Acts Of Desperation author Megan Nolan (Pic: Lynn Rothwell)
Waterford-born, London-based Megan Nolan is an essayist and critic - her work has have published everywhere from
The New York Times and the
New Statesman (where she writes a regular column) to
Winter Papers and here on RTÉ Culture.
This month she publishes her first novel,
Acts Of Desperation (published by Jonathan Cape); it s a darkly funny tale of a toxic relationship and secret female desire, already acclaimed by the likes of Marian Keyes and Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård.
We asked Megan for her choice cultural picks.
Between Realism and Something Else: An Interview with Ron Nyren I loved researching this book, finding out about chronophotography, pictorialism, the 1906 earthquake, and the artists of the time. Ron Nyren talks with Margot Livesey about his debut novel,
The Book of Lost Light.
When I suggested to Ron Nyren that we have a conversation about his absorbing debut novel,
The Book of Lost Light, I realized that I could no longer remember when he and I first met. Our lives were already intertwined through several writerly connections, notably Andrea Barrett, Charles Baxter, and his spouse, Sarah Stone. Ron reminded me that he and Sarah had come to a reading I gave in San Francisco. The three of us wound up taking a walk near the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which contains a number of the remarkable Eadweard Muybridge photographs that play a vital part in