Just before the release of her novel 'Ordinary Human Failings,' Megan Nolan talked to us about everyone's obsessed with the Irish right now.
, and on the morning of our call, she was announced as a finalist for the Gordon Burn Prize, which “recognises literature that is forward-thinking and fearless in its ambition and execution, often playing with style, pushing boundaries, crossing genres or challenging readers’ expectations.” The high praise is fitting for a writer whose debut, 2021’s
NOLAN: It’s mostly just a delayed thing that was meant to happen in 2020. Then, by the time that was possible and I started spending time there, it just felt a lot more fun than London to me. I think it’s also an age thing. A lot of my friends are getting married and moving to the suburbs and having babies. I think because it’s so hard to settle down in New York, the equivalent friends I have there are more like me, unmarried and untethered and quite whimsical about where they spend their time.
HOGEVEEN: There’s this real understanding of true crime in the book, like the interior monologue that Tom, the journalist, delivers when imagining the different scenarios that he could be encountering in the baby’s death. What’s your relationship to true crime? NOLAN: I would never want to claim that the anti-immigration stuff that is so real lands on people like me, it just really doesn’t. And that’s partly because there’s a sweetheart deal between Ireland and England, which means that I can live and work here as easily as I could in Ireland. But a generation ago, my dad lived here when he was a young adult, during active IRA bombing campaigns. And people deeply hated him then and said abusive things to him.
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