In his cheerfully chilly house in a small Irish village in County Sligo, Kevin Barry is explaining why his latest novel took so long to write. Samuel Beckett is glaring at us from a large framed ...

In the woods near his home in Ireland, author Kevin Barry found the answer to something that had nagged him for more than 20 years. “One day, late in the pandemic, I was walking in the mountains in ...

Steal money, torch a hotel and ride off into the sunset with another man’s wife. The things we do for love. The wayward hero of the brilliant Irish writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in the United ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It’s been a staple on Savannah’s River Street for decades. But over the weekend, through social media it was announced Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub is closing down for good. There’s ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - After nearly 40 years of being open, this New Year’s Eve will be the last one for River Street’s Kevin Barry’s Irish Pub. A staple ...

KEVIN BARRY: When I was eight years old, I wrote a short story in which the soul of Elvis Presley ascends into the body of a seagull hovering above Memphis and the seagull crosses the Atlantic and ...

Sometimes, if you're a lover of literary fiction, you read something that speaks to you so personally and at the same time is so beautifully illuminating of the human condition that you feel uplifted.

Hiking solo across a country whose language he cannot speak, sleeping on beaches and eating hardly at all, the narrator of "Extremadura (Until Night Falls)," one of Kevin Barry's lyrical short stories ...

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In the woods near his home in Ireland, author Kevin Barry found the answer to something that had nagged him for more than 20 years. “One day, late in the pandemic, I was walking in the mountains in ...