Lee Morrissey Interviews Kevin Barry: Award-winning Irish Author
April 26, 2018
In this interview with Lee Morrissey, Kevin Barry describes a unique feature in his novel,
Beatlebone, “The heart of the book is an essay, in the middle of it, in which I write essentially
about why I’m telling this story, and why I’m writing this story, in which I figure out in the
course of writing that essay that it’s a portrait of an artist, and to make a portrait of an artist you
have to bring everything you have from your own life to it.”