Declan Burke Writes

“Everything is very plain and modern now,” a dying man tells the author Jack London roughly halfway through Minds of Winter (riverrun), warn...

Salman Rushdie’s 10th novel opens in Arab Spain in 1195, when disgraced court physician and philosopher Ibn Rushd takes in the mysterious 16...

“Like so many of life’s varieties of experience,” writes Christopher Hitchens in Mortality (Atlantic Books), “the novelty of a diagnosis of ...

Oh, to have John Connolly’s air-miles. Last week JC (right) turned up at Ireland House, NYU, to give a talk on Irish crime writing. Seamus ...

UNCAGE ME is the follow-up to 2007’s EXPLETIVE DELETED, being a collection of short stories about taboos and the breaking thereof, and edit...

1. Get genius idea for a story. 2. Example: Man gets brain transplant from loopy nun and has visions of Jesus telling him the Holy Grail is...

Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but here’s a couple of snippets from items that have popped up in my inbox over the last day or so. Fir...

When an author references another writer’s novel twice in one book, it’s fair to presume that he or she is drawing attention and inviting c...

I got in touch with Adrian McKinty (right) earlier in the week, asking, for the purposes of a newspaper feature, why he believes there’s s...

You lose some, you win some. Hot on the heels of Publishers Weekly dissing THE BIG O on the basis that it’s not as good as Elmore Leonard (...

Last week I posted a review of the new Batman flick, The Dark Knight , in which I said I liked the movie a lot, not least for its use of a ...

‘Read, read, read and write, write, write’ is what experienced writers tend to say when their aspiring brethren ask for advice on how to be...

The early reviews of THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE have suggested, with no little glee, that Salman Rushdie’s latest novel is the worst he ha...

Quoth the Grand Vizier : It’s been a funny old week for ‘Project Grand Vizier’, people. The biggest news came from Hollywood, where the tea...