Day: 23 September 2019

  • Who’s-Dead McCarthy by Kevin Barry Analysis

    Who’s-Dead McCarthy by Kevin Barry Analysis

    In the short story “Who’s-Dead McCarthy“, Irish short story writer Kevin Barry takes someone’s darkly morbid fascination with death and exaggerates it in a story-length character sketch — a man who talks about death so incessantly that people cross the road to avoid him. It’s wonderful. I think humour only ever exists in something that […]

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