The Irish Sea Switzerland and homeland

and homeland

Agnomia is a book to relish

the New York Times called Hopeful Monsters a virtual encyclopedia of twentieth century thought

with a pronounced taste for the bizarre underside of urban life

The Irish Sea Switzerland and homelandThe Irish Sea is a novel masquerading as a book of short stories. A meditation on the paradox of nostalgia, which always seems to pine for what never was. A fevered search for order through writing, of truth through literature, of the nodal point where life and literature intersect. A strange personal gallery curated by a razor sharp reader and his other, unknown self. At a New Years Eve party, a dead woman turns up alive again, after passing through