I am not yet technically savvy enough to create links to this blog, so I want to use this short posting to let you know where some other shortish samples of my writings can be found.
On the Amazon.com website, i've published a number of online reviews, e.g. of William Butcher's 2007 Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography and of Annie Ernaux's I Remain In Darkness. The latter is the English translation of the French writer Ernaux's roman autobiographique entitled Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit. Like all of Ernaux's works, all of which i've enjoyed in their original French, this text is intensely personal, intimate, brutally honest to the point of discomfort, occasional shock, on the part of the reader.
I've written an article entitled Translating "Foundling Mick" for the Royal Irish Academy's 2008 The Extraordinary Adventures of Foundling Mick, Jules Verne's Irish-themed novel.
There is another republication of an old Verne translation - Stephen W. White's The Tour of the World in 80 Days - coming out in the USA later this year, published by the Choptank Press, and I will have two articles in that book about Verne and White and the latter's highly accurate rendering of the above Verne novel.
I've also been on radio twice in 2008 to speak about Verne - once on Newstalk, the other time on RTE Radio 1's The Arts Show. These can be Googled for the audio online (just in case you are a Verne aficionado).
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