Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy Ireland

Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy IrelandWriting the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy is a comprehensive collection of critical essays, memoirs, poetry, and other writerly responses devoted to the life and work of the late Dermot Healy (1947 2014). Healy was an accomplished poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and editor, and so these essays and observations address the entire range of his eclectic and exciting oeuvre. While paying due tribute to the memory of the man

or the high-pitched monodrama of the impasse we get in Buster Keaton

apocalyptic novel that brings together the end of the Third Reich with the closing of the twentieth century

Though we'll probably never know whether Levé—who in addition to being a writer was a successful photographer with an interest in conceptual art—killed himself to bring his grim metafiction full circle

He has contributed to the literary reviews Quimera and La bolsa de pipas

and bearing the vulnerability of both the Russian Jewry and the anti-Bolshevik intelligentsia—who had unwittingly become the “enemies of the people”—Hunt satirizes Soviet censorship and the ineptitude of Soviet leaders with acerbic panache

Johnson and Georges Perec

variegated

and it takes an English-speaking Russian expat with a strong antipathy for the city and its inhabitants to solve the mystery

From sex to God

Through the narrator we are

erotic and austere

He graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in psychology