A woman known for her short story prowess, Mary Costello’s latest short story collection, ‘Barcelona’, is a thorough examination...
A woman known for her short story prowess, Mary Costello’s latest short story collection, ‘Barcelona’, is a thorough examination of the human condition.
Mary Costello is the award-winning author of two novels and two collections of short stories. Earlier this week, we featured an extract from, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room a marriage unravels as a young wife is haunted by a past love. A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son’s true nature. A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.
Here, we sit down with the author to chat about her writing process, literary inspiration, and the art of crafting short stories…No, writing was not on my radar until I was about twenty-one. I’d studied English and always loved reading, but it was only during a period of insomnia when a kind of inner pressure started to build that I realised I needed to write.A vague feeling that something wasn’t right, or something was missing. I started writing to figure out what I thought.
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