What makes a waif?
Joanne O’Leary, 13 September 2018
The Long-Winded Lady: Tales from the ‘New Yorker’
by Maeve Brennan.
Stinging Fly, 215 pp., £10.99, January 2017,978 1 906539 59 7 Show More
by Maeve Brennan.
Stinging Fly, 215 pp., £10.99, January 2017,
Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the ‘New Yorker’
by Angela Bourke.
Counterpoint, 360 pp., $16.95, February 2016,978 1 61902 715 2 Show More
by Angela Bourke.
Counterpoint, 360 pp., $16.95, February 2016,
The Springs of Affection: Stories
by Maeve Brennan.
Stinging Fly, 368 pp., £8.99, May 2016,978 1 906539 54 2 Show More
by Maeve Brennan.
Stinging Fly, 368 pp., £8.99, May 2016,
“... even those sceptical about conflating a writer’s life and work will find it difficult not to see Bob Brennan as the prototype for the jealous parents who haunt his daughter’s stories. It was on account of his writerly aspirations that Brennan was riven by guilt at her own success. ‘The pain radiated by the Envious One,’ she wrote to Maxwell, ‘is ... ”