To mark the centenary of James Joyce’s Dubliners, myself and Tramp Press asked 15 Irish authors to write ‘cover versions’ of Joyce’s stories for an anthology titled Dubliners 100. While we wanted the collection to be a celebration of Joyce’s work, we also wanted it to be a showcase for established and emerging talent. The ‘emerging’ aspect was especially important: after all, Dubliners was Joyce’s prose debut and he wrote almost all the stories before the age of 23. We were delighted, therefore, when the unpublished, 24-year-old, Sam Coll accepted the invitation to write a cover version of Grace. I had read – and was blown away - by Sam’s as-then-unpublished 600-page novel, The Abode of...
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