Mar 6, 2014
Like many people, I encountered Roddy Doyle through the Barrytown trilogy – The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van – three terrific novels, and later movies, set in the same fictional working class neighborhood of Dublin, novels that do things with dialogue I hadn’t thought possible. His newest, The Guts, revisits Jimmy Rabbitte – founder of The Commitments, inventor of Irish soul music – 27 years later. His life is… complicated. Fortunately. Bliss is boring. Other people’s, anyway. It’s a joy to catch up with him. - See more at: http://92yondemand.org/person-place-thing-episode-65-roddy-doyle/#sthash.uKlX7bmh.dpuf