Previous episodes of the podcast can be found here. The Stinging Fly Podcast invites Irish writers to choose a story from the Stinging Fly archive to read and discuss. Her latest novel, Akin, was published last year. Donoghue’s 1995 novel Hood won the Stonewall Book Award, and her novel Slammerkin won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. Her 2010 novel Room was an international best-seller, and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize – the movie adaptation of the book was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Exciting Times has been described by Hilary Mantel as “droll, shrewd and unafraid” – it is published this month by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in Ireland and the UK, and in June by Ecco in the US.Įmma Donoghue is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her writing has featured in The Dublin Review and The Stinging Fly. Naoise Dolan was born in Dublin, studied at Trinity College, and completed a master’s degree in Victorian literature at Oxford. Naoise Dolan, author of the acclaimed debut novel, Exciting Times, joins Declan Meade in studio to read and discuss the subtle gothic horror of Emma Donoghue’s ‘Looking for Petronilla’, a story that appeared back in Issue 11 of the magazine in Winter 2001.
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