Dan O’Brien (From Scarsdale, True Story, A Story that Happens) joins Vince Francone (A Book No One Wants) and Chad to discuss Dermot Healy’s Collected Plays. After discussing Healy’s life and other works (A Goat’s Song in particular), they focus on a handful of the plays, including “Blood Wedding,” “The Long Swim,” “Men to the Right, Women to the Left,” “A Night at the Disco,” and “Metagama.” A lively, fun conversation about the process of reading plays versus seeing them performed, writing across genres, creating community, being a writer’s writer, and much more.

Next month’s book is Dead As Doornails by Anthony Cronin. A Dalkey Archive edition is coming soon, but in the meantime, this is available from Lilliput Press who is reissuing it on occasion of the book’s 50th anniversary.

This episode’s music is “Blood Wedding” by Black 47.

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