“Surely this character’s politics are a little simplistic. We don’t want him to seem like an idiot,” said my well meaning editor at one point.
“But those are my politics,” I replied.
Seán Costello
You're going to get so sick of me soon. I'M sick of me. Here's an essay I did for the Guardian about being the hip young gunslinger of Irish literature:
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
There are some advantages to being an older debutant, including knowing what it’s like to fail and not having your new novel overshadowed by early literary promise
