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Marni Jackson’s review of “Flirting at the Funeral.”
Writer, award winning journalist and film co-writer, Toronto based Marni Jackson gives her thoughts on Chris Keil’s latest novel Flirting at the Funeral. “Matty, the character I found so charming in the early bits, evolves into a wonderful monster, whose artistry is undermined by ambition, narcissism and and living in the past. Howard became one of my favourite characters, his …
Review in NWR
“Portugal, romance, film, terrorism, materialism & European capitalism. Highly topical, in the week the European Council got the Nobel Peace Prize! Chris Keil’s Flirting at the Funeral is reviewed by Katherine Stansfield in NWR spring edition.” Gwen Davies, Editor New Welsh Review
Flirting at the Funeral: The Movie
View PostFlirting at the Funeral: The Movie!
Click on the link below to watch the fabulous Cillian Press filmed interview with Chris Keil, author of Flirting at the Funeral. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-894F4NZhyg … … … …
Flirting at the Funeral Carmarthen launch party
View PostMATTHEW 8 . 28
28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, art thou come hither to torment us before the time? 30 And there was …
August 21st 2016
View PostFrom the Notebook 2
It was sunset, and windy; the house was on the top of a hill. They were lighting fires and heaping rubbish into piles, throwing furniture out of the front door. They were intoxicated with leaving.
From the Notebook
From: The Ghostwriter’s Notebook Copyright © Chris Keil 2015 “Disgusting old man, that porrnographer. I met him Stephen you know, in Petersburg in 2005; he dribbles. I think he pisses pants also.” Fabienne was pouring herself a drink, her back to the room. “You’re so rude, darling,” she said. She turned to look at me. “He can’t help it, I …
WORKING SPACE
The Ghostwriter’s Notebook
LONDON IN SEPTEMBER
Good morning! and goodnight!
LISBON
I’m borrowing an apartment in Lisbon, fabulously glamorous city in a wonderfully frayed and tattered, ever-so-slightly seedy sort of a way, perfect belle époque, faded, a little down-at-heel, a courtesan of a certain age, irresistible! And I’m getting some writing done; for some reason my imagination is being fed raw meat here, even though I’m writing about London and …
Porto, August 2014
A Garden of Forking Paths in Porto, a Borges afternoon
LISBON, July 2014
Lisbon in July, the most beautiful city in the world!
Flirting at the Book Fair
I shall be reading from “Flirting at the Funeral” at the Manchester Book Market on Sunday, June 7th. Not to be missed!
FERN HILL UNREMEMBERED
Empty, neglected and falling into dereliction, surrounded and ignored by orgies of congratulatory self-promotion, this is Fern Hill in centenary April.
MARK BRADY NEWS
My rock star publisher Mark Brady of Cillian Press, full tilt at the Millennium Centre. Go Mark!
Flirting at the Funeral Carmarthen launch party
View PostFlirting at the Funeral UK Tour
So, the Flirting at the Funeral UK Rolling Thunder Tour is taking a short break: five gigs in nine days conducted in flat-out rock’n’roll style… London, Carmarthen, Manchester and Llandovery – art galleries, bookshops and pubs (“The motorway system of Britain is beautiful and strange…”). Four, really, as the second Llandovery litfest event unhappened when the Writers’ Tent blew down …