#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Paul Murray’s blend of the comic and the cosmic is unmatched; his laugh-out-loud epics of modern life are as stylish as they are humane. In the Booker-shortlisted The Bee Sting, he regales us with the extraordinary story of a family and society on the brink of crisis. Don’t miss this exceptional author as he discusses the eternal themes and modern preoccupations of his work with Griffith Review editor and Skippy Dies obsessive Carody Culver.
#Artists
Paul Murray
Paul Murray was born in 1975 in Dublin. He is the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes, which was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies (2010) was long-listed for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Mark and the Void (2015) was the joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was named one of Time’s Top 10 Fiction Books of the year.
Carody Culver
Carody Culver is the editor of Griffith Review. Her writing has appeared in Kill Your Darlings, Peppermint, Books+Publishing, The Toast and elsewhere. Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader it Gets, was published by Cordite in 2022. She’s interviewed writers and public figures including Grace Tame, Jonathan Franzen, Waleed Aly, Clementine Ford, Anna Funder and Cory Doctorow.