This coming Thursday, August 19th, marks the start of Lonely Passions: The Brian Moore Centenary Festival. A seven-day celebration organized by Belfast's Paradosso Theatre, it kicks of with an evening event featuring Colm Toíbín, Bernard McLaverty and Tara Ison. Hugh Odling-Smee will host.
The festival features sixteen events in total. I'm participating in one, this coming Saturday, in which I'll discussing Brian Moore's Montreal years and seven pulp novels with the brilliant Joanna Braniff.
The festival features sixteen events in total. I'm participating in one, this coming Saturday, in which I'll discussing Brian Moore's Montreal years and seven pulp novels with the brilliant Joanna Braniff.
Because of bloody Covid, this is a virtual event. On the positive side, the only ticket you'll need to attend is the one that can be purchased through this link.
Please do consider.
Sounds interesting. I see that Patricia Craig is participating and is listed as "Moore's biographer." I enjoy her reviews, but when I was researching the Moore chapter of Equivocal City,I was puzzled that Craig's biography (as I recall) basically ignored the one Denis Sampson had published a few years earlier, and which is really good.Of course Denis' publisher, Marino Books of Dublin, apparently did not last very long, but still...
ReplyDeleteThe Denis Sampson bio is invaluable. I think it met a better fate in Canada, where it was published by Doubleday. If memory serves, it even came out in paperback (strip and bind). I see no sign of an American edition. Should surprise me, but it doesn't.
DeleteI met Denis by chance once. I was staying at the Montreal home of a mutual friend when he happened to come by. It was a pleasure to have an exchange with someone who had read Moore's early pulp novels.