š§ On Making Sense of a Murderer, with Mark OāConnellš§
The Shakespeare and Company Interview
English - August 30, 2023 22:01 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MB - ā ā ā ā ā - 44 ratingsArts interview long-form literature fiction non-fiction paris Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Mark OāConnellās new book A Thread of Violence is the writerās attempt to understand Malcolm MacArthur, the figure at the centre of one of Irelandās most notorious crimes, and ā to quote Taoiseach Charles Haughey ā the āgrotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedentedā events that led to the perpetratorās eventual arrest in the home of the Irish Attorney General. It is a crime that has haunted OāConnell for decades and which leads him to meeting and getting to know the now elderly, long-freed MacArthur. As this unlikely acquaintance grows, however, OāConnell not only comes to question the possibility of ever coming to any conclusion about what actually drove this previously law-abiding local eccentric to murder two strangers in the summer of 1982, but also calls into doubt his own motivations for embarking on the project in the first place, and the risks he is taking in his own life to complete it.
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Mark O'Connell is an award-winning Irish writer. His first book, To Be a Machine, won the 2018Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. In 2019, he became the firstever non-fiction writer to win the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second book,Notes From an Apocalypse was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. He is a contributor to the NewYork Review of Books, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker.
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