Edna O'Brien

We're worlds and generations away from the risky, convention-defying sexual adventures of Edna O'Brien's isolated girls, the violent repressions of country people in a McGahern story, or the quiet, hopeless longing of William Trevor's small-town lovers.

The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright – review 2011

Mr. Heaney's Nobel-winning poetry, the plays of Brian Friel and Martin McDonagh, and novels by Edna O'Brien ("The Country Girls"), Colm Tóibín ("Brooklyn") and Roddy Doyle ("Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha") are found only in the museum bookshop.

Celebrating the Mordant, Witty and Darkly Romantic Julia M. Klein 2011

Haunted, now at 59E59, is the first play from Edna O'Brien, a noted novelist who specializes in troubled unions.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Haunted, James Barbour, Broadway Musicals Fern Siegel 2010

Haunted, now at 59E59, is the first play from Edna O'Brien, a noted novelist who specializes in troubled unions.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Haunted, James Barbour, Broadway Musicals Fern Siegel 2010

Haunted, now at 59E59, is the first play from Edna O'Brien, a noted novelist who specializes in troubled unions.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Haunted, James Barbour, Broadway Musicals Fern Siegel 2010

Tons of writers I love -- off the top of my head, these would include Graham Greene, Jose Saramago, G.K. Chesterton, Edna O'Brien, Joseph Conrad, Italo Calvino, and Charles Dickens -- have created works that are every bit as suspenseful as those written by authors of supposedly suspenseful genre fiction.

Anis Shivani: Adam Langer, Author of "The Thieves of Manhattan": Exclusive Huffington Post Interview 2010

As of December 7, 2009, short stories by Christopher Buckley, Edna O'Brien (and by January Curtis Sittenfeld, and presumably many others) are available on Kindle, courtesy of a deal with the Atlantic Monthly.

Wednesday Martin: Short Stories for $3.99: the Atlantic/Kindle Deal is Not So New 2009

Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright and screenwriter, known as a pioneer for her frank portrayals of women.

SSC presents "Virginia" staged reading on 25 Jan jlundberg 2009

News at Eleven: In both instances, one of the biography's great strengths is that Edna O'Brien approaches the other artist not as a subject--as a scholar would--but as a character, which is what any great novelist--as she surely is--would do.

Archive 2009-06-01 Rus Bowden 2009

If you will pay a certain amount for a mega-caloric concoction bearing little relation to actual coffee, the thinking probably goes, you will pay at least as much to have Edna O'Brien on demand.

Wednesday Martin: Short Stories for $3.99: the Atlantic/Kindle Deal is Not So New 2009