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As it's #BookShopDay let's have another book thread :) The Art of the Glimpse, a new anthology of Irish short stories collected and edited by #WildGees fav @sineadgleeson includes lesser heard Irish voices - LGBTQ, Travellers, people of colour and some forgotten women writers... https://twitter.com/sineadgleeson/status/1312303680452993024
Norah Hoult, who died in 1984, wrote several novels and short stories. Described as "a woman writer who falls completely out of fashion and is forgotten. She was an absolutely brilliant writer and well-known at the time in a way she isn’t now”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_Hoult
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norah_Hoult
In The Art of the Glimpse, Hoult's 'Nine Years is a Long Time' tells the story of a sex worker in pre-war Liverpool and includes timeless themes of poverty, loveless marriage, middle age and being slut-shamed by your teenage daughter
Irish-American Elizabeth Cullinan was a regular contributor to the New Yorker and published 2 short story collections, now little known. 'The Swim', her story in The Art of the Glimpse, is about a date with an Irish writer and a dip in the sea at Howth
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/elizabeth-cullinan
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/elizabeth-cullinan
(Elizabeth has no Wikipedia article, if any editors are looking for ideas @WikimediaIE @restlesscurator)
Ranelagh-born Maeve Brennan was another writer who made it big in NY but not much recognition in her home country. Her (very) short story in TAOTG is The Morning After the Big Fire - the tale of a "really satisfactory fire" from a child's perspective
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve_Brennan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve_Brennan
We've been stanning @sineadgleeson since we encountered her on Day 2 of our #WildGees trip, loved her book Constellations and now The Art of the Glimpse - run out and grab it quick before #BookShopDay is over! http://thewildgees.com/day-two-literary-evening/
Also, this quote "my feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit" Flovia Dzodan @redlightvoices - words to live by #WildGees
