Lucy discusses her new collection Intimacies on RTE Radio 1’s “Arena”
Interviews
BBC – Open Book
Audio & Video, Interviews, NewsElizabeth Day talks to Lisa McInerney and Lucy Caldwell, two young writers born in the same year from different side of the Irish border. 100 years since partition, they discuss how a literary culture once defined by exile and sectarian identities is being reconfigured in exciting new ways today. (listen at the BBC)
Book List – Sunday 23 May and Thursday 27 May
The Rules of Revelation by Lisa McInerney
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
The Blood Miracles by Lisa McInerney
Being Various: New Irish Short Stories: Edited by Lucy Caldwell
Multitudes by Lucy Caldwell
Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
A Belfast Woman by Mary Beckett
A Literary Woman by Mark Beckett
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Book Parts: Edited by Dennis Duncan and Adam Smyth
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Bad Behaviour by Mary Gaitskill
Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill
Two Girls, Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
West Cork Literary Festival
Events, Interviews, NewsJan Carson, Lucy Caldwell, Adrian Duncan, Louise Kennedy & John Patrick McHugh discuss their recent collections of stories as part of the West Cork Literary Festival
Northern Irish Voices
Events, Interviews, NewsLucy Caldwell discusses her most recent publication, Intimacies (2021), in conversation with Keith Hopper.
West Cork Literary Festival
Interviews, Newsa celebration of the short story to mark the publication of Jan Carson’s The Last Resort. Jan is joined by fellow Irish short story writers whose new collections are published this year – Lucy Caldwell, Adrian Duncan, Louise Kennedy, and John Patrick McHugh.
Lucy Caldwell in conversation with Hedwig Schwall
Interviews
Lucy Caldwell talks to Hedwig Schwall about narrative perspective in general and you-narrations in particular, about the influence of James Joyce and Lucia Berlin on her short story collections Multitudes and Intimacies and about family dynamics. She reflects on motherhood and autobiographical writing, on the act of choosing love over fear, and on the power of literature to hold a space for its readers. She also discusses the Belfast author C.S. Lewis and lipstick, the Northern Irish community in London and the importance of diversity; last not least, she thinks about what it means to be European in times of Brexit.
Dublin Book Festival
Interviews
Yan Ge and Lucy Sweeney Byrne In Conversation with Lucy Caldwell
Join Belfast Book Festival Patron, Lucy Caldwell in conversation with two stellar short story writers, Lucy Sweeney Byrne and Yan Ge.
Lucy Sweeney Byrne’s debut short story collection Paris Syndrome (2019), explores travelling the world alone as a young woman. She has recently been shortlisted for the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize Yan Ge has been writing and publishing in Chinese for many years, and began writing in English in 2016. Her work was featured in Being Various: New Irish Short Stories.
The Event is now available online. To watch it, visit the DBF website.