psychological insight

Arthur C Clarke's birthday wish to actually meet an alien was completely soul shattering for me. I really really thought he had an alien as a master. The poem "Passing Pleasures" offers a poetic release of dissappointment. I think I will write a book on how writer's become their work and their work, the writers. Sad.

Dubliner John Banville's novels blend psychological insight with breathtaking lyrical firepower. Banville's "The Sea," his 2005 novel about an Irish writer haunted by his past, won the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Now Banville (adopting the noir-sounding pen name Benjamin Black) has turned his enormous literary talents to something new.