James Friel
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | CHESTER, Handbridge, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | James Friel's most recent novel, The Posthumous Affair, published in the US in 2012. His other novels includeThe Higher Realm, Left of North, Taking the Veil and Careless Talk. He is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Chester University and has tutored regularly for both the Arvon Foundation and at Ty Newydd. |
| Favorite movies | Abe, Almodovar, Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Theo Angelopoulos, Antonioni, Eve Arden, Fred Astaire, Mary Astor, Auden, and then onto the B's |
| Favorite music | John Adams, Thomas Ades, A-ha, Adele, Anthony and the Johnsons, Aretha, and onto the B's |
| Favorite books | The Pilgrim Hawk, Glenway Wescott, Therese Desqueyroux, First Love, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Alice Munro, Chekhov, A Home at the End of the World, The Dominion of the Dead, Mark Doty, Ahkmatova, The Time of Our Singing, Foe, Stefan Zweig, Alicia Stubbersfield, Sarah Salway, David Almond, Henry James, Henry Green, Robert Pogue Harrison, A House in Paris, Penelope Fitzgerald, Nabokov, The Great Gatsby, William J Mann, Isaac Babel, Hemingway, Kafka, Lawrence, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Salinger, George Saunders, Eudora Welty, Marilynne Robinson, Snow Country and onto the next shelf... |
You're going to the moon! What did you forget to pack?
Coffee - because I need to wake up and enjoy the view.