BOOKS FOLK TALES Fairytales and ghost stories have always contained hidden warnings. Twiggy Woman (Skein Press, 14.99), a collection of folk tales from the Irish Traveller community, by award-winning author Oein de Bhairduin, contains lessons aplenty for us foolish humans for tales that orientate around loss show what is precious. De Bhairduin opens each story with a personal reflection of his own and Helena Grimess unique illustrations add an eerie touch to this fascinating collection that reconnects us with forgotten aspects of the oral Irish tradition. WRITERS BLOCK LAUREN ELKIN Lauren Elkin is an American writer and translator, most recently the author of Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art and the UK translator of Simone de Beauvoirs previously unpublished novel The Inseparables. She is also the author of No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute and Flâneuse:Women Walk the City, which was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Born and raised in New York, she lived in Paris for over 20 years. She now lives in London with her partner and son. WHATS ON MY BEDSIDE TABLE MARK OCONNELL Mark OConnell is an award-winning Irish writer. His first book, To Be A Machine, won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize. In 2019, he became the first ever non-fiction writer to win the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second book Notes From an Apocalypse, was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize. He is a contributor to The New York Review Of Books, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker. A Thread of Violence, his book about murderer Malcolm Macarthur, was published by Granta earlier this year. He lives in Dublin with his family. I just finished reading film director Werner Herzogs memoir, which is amazingly titled Every Man for Himself and God Against All. The man has had an extraordinary life, and made a lot of strange and powerful films, but whats most interesting to me is his strange lack of self-reflection about it all. Its told in a very straightforward style just one insane, inspiring, terrifying, hilarious, profound thing after another and he refuses to analyse himself. At times its frustrating, but mostly its inseparable from what makes his work so great. If you harshly light every corner of a house, as he puts it at one point, the house will be uninhabitable. Ive just started a book by Kerry Howley called Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs, which is an essayistic exploration of the case of Reality Winner, the US military translator who was imprisoned in 2018 for leaking information about Russian election interference. Its a really intriguing book dark, surprisingly funny, and a bit formally shifty. Its early days, but Im very into it so far. Im also reading Go Ahead in the Rain, a book about the rap group A Tribe Called Quest by the American poet and critic Hanif Abdurraqib. Abdurraqib is a gifted critic, and he writes with deep erudition and real style about Tribes music, and hip-hop culture as a whole. So far, its fascinating, fun, and endlessly informative. I just got an advance proof of Colin Barretts debut novel, Wild Houses, which Im very eager to get stuck into. Barrett is a lavishly talented writer, and Ive always admired his stories for their surprising sentences, their unique voice, and their flinty, slanted humour. Im excited to see what he does with his first novel. ON HOME We moved to South East London a couple of months ago. Were used to living in cramped, if beautiful, Parisian apartments so we cant believe our good fortune at having a whole house to ourselves. New York is where I grew up, and where my family is, so thats home in the sense of home being where you started from and where your people are, but it doesnt feel like home in the sense of any ongoing relationship with it. Im only a visitor now. My other home, my real home, is Paris, where I lived for 20-plus years. I long to get back there and will, when our son is a bit older. When I think about where my support system is, my network of friends, my doctor, my dermatologist, all of it is in Paris and so Paris is still my centre of gravity in that sense. ON ROOTS The funny thing about Americans is that we have no roots and too many roots. Some members of my family moved to America from Italy in the 1960s. I grew up going to family get-togethers where everyone spoke Italian except for us. My moms family is from Ireland and Germany and I dont know what else is mixed in there and the other side of my fathers family are Russian Jews who came to America fleeing the pogroms. ON MY DESK My desk is a white farmhouse table but a lot of the white has worn away. It was the first piece of furniture that I bought in Paris in 2005. I wrote my masters on this desk, several books, my PhD thesis. I have a vase with flowers, a candle, a Vanessa Bell-inspired jug for my pens. The desk for me is about a particular type of work that feels more academic or research-based. If I want to go into creative mode, I have to be on a sofa or in a bed I have no idea why. ON WRITING It started for me when I was an undergraduate in Paris and developed this habit of writing in cafés, trying to be like Ernest Hemingway. I soon realised it was really healthy for me to clear out the cobwebs, a kind of daily hygiene to just write in my notebook and it didnt have to be for anything. The bus book [No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute] came out of that daily writing practice. ON SUCCESS Im very happy with where Im at in my career. Obviously, I have a very strong sense of being a total imposter any day now people are going to figure out theres not much there and lose interest and I wont be able to sell my work or make a living from my work anymore! ON BOOKSHOPS Is it incredibly obvious and cheesy if I say Shakespeare & Company in Paris? I have an ongoing relationship with that bookshop and the people who run it and theyre part of my Paris family. When I first visited in 1999, I was really intimidated by the writers who hung out there. You could just tell they all thought very highly of themselves and they werent very friendly. Over time [the owners] daughter Sylvia came in and created a different kind of culture and she made a bookshop that feels like much more than a shop. Its such a welcoming and inspiring atmosphere with some of the best people Ive ever met its a lifeline to me. 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Gold Anita earrings, Lié Studio, 279; www.loulerie.com. QUIET COOL Understated clothes speak volumes about your style PHOTOGRAPHED BY BARRY MC CALL / STYLED BY CATHERINE CONDELL THE POWER SHOULDER COAT Navy wool coat, 1,345; navy bias-cut dress, 895; both Dries van Noten; black Astrilarge Botta kneehigh leather boots, Christian Louboutin, 1,695; black THE WRAP JACKET Black and white houndstooth cashmere mix wrap jacket, 625; white cotton shirt, 115; both at MAGEE 1866, 21-26 South Anne Street, Dublin 2; www.magee1866.com. THE SUIT Grey Prince of Wales check blazer, 105; matching wide-leg trousers, 65; black slingback kitten-heel shoes, 65; black tote bag, 60; all at MARKS & SPENCER; www.marksandspencer.com. DAY OR NIGHT Grey mohair sweater, 230; silver metallic skirt, 350; green leather clutch bag, 369; all Weekend By Max Mara; black embellished patent leather shoes, Lodi, 189; all at ARNOTTS; www.arnotts.ie. 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I tell all my juniors to take up an instrument. MORGAN MC MONAGLE Life & Work Morgan McMonagle is a trauma surgeon, currently working on building the new trauma service at INTERVIEW INTERVIEW WITH WITH A A MAN MAN MY EXERCISE ROUTINE NOW INCLUDES ... Swimming three or four times a week. I use the gym to keep healthy. MY FRIENDSHIPS ARE FOR THE MOST PART ... Special. Im the sort of person who has a few meaningful friends, rather than lots of superficial ones. HOW CAN INTERIORS My World at HOME Colour and character define textile artist Aiveen Dalys house PHOTOGRAPHS BY NATALIE DINHAM Irish textile artist Aiveen Daly at the door of her Edwardian house in North West London. I ABOVE The pretty fireplace is painted Wedgwood blue. LEFT The shade of blue for the FOOD Simmer Time Trish Deseine slow-cooks a full-bodied casserole G rowing up in Co Antrim, a beef farmers daughter, at times it felt that every day had to include beef on the menu. My father was a stickler for the most carefully cooked rare steaks and roasts, and there was often palpable tensio WINE Lovely Bubbly Julie Dupouy unpacks Proseccos enduring charm E njoyed on its own or as a deliciously refreshing Aperol Spritz, Prosecco is widely consumed for its uncomplicated and approachable fruity style, but also for its affordable price tag. Prosecco is the worlds number one bubbly in t READER EVENT THE GLOSS A WARM WINTER BROUGHT TO YOU BY BUTLERS WINTER ALL WRAPPED UP in association with Veuve Clicquot and Cloudy Bay SEASON At Butlers Chocolate Cafés this November, enjoy seasonal hot chocolates in three delicious flavours (Black Forest, Caramel and Candy Cane) in addition t DINING Restaurant Notes Be a lady or laddie who lunches, at one of these store cafés or restaurants, says Ciara McQuillan AVOCA, KILMACANOGUE: THE STORE Avocas Kilmacanogue store is a picture-perfect spot for a shopping expedition, with the added draw of a delicious lunch. The store is surround THIS GLOSSY LIFE 64 November 2023 THE GLOSS MAGAZINE THIS GLOSSY LIFE COOL AND I UNUSUAL The very opposite of try-hard or ostentatious, thats designer Bella Freuds London pad PHOTOGRAPHED BY SIMON UPTON was born on Ladbroke Grove in North Kensington and I have been in this part of London for most of my life, not counting a blip in the 1980s when I m THIS GLOSSY LIFE 66 November 2023 THE GLOSS MAGAZINE THIS GLOSSY LIFE I KNEW THE DESIGN WAS FANCIER THAN I HAD FIRST IMAGINED BUT I DIDNT HAVE ANY OTHER IDEAS AT THE TIME AND THE RESULT IS FANTASTIC ... My now ex-husband, James, and I discovered this building through a connection with the original owners, casting director Camilla Arthur and Mark Leb BOOKS Reading Notes Edel Coffey chooses nine books for November W hen Hilary Mantel died unexpectedly in September 2022, she and her husband were in the process of moving to Kinsale, Co Cork, both as a way of escaping Brexit and of reconnecting with Mantels Irish Catholic roots. But alas it was BOOKS FOLK TALES Fairytales and ghost stories have always contained hidden warnings. Twiggy Woman (Skein Press, 14.99), a collection of folk tales from the Irish Traveller community, by award-winning author Oein de Bhairduin, contains lessons aplenty for us foolish humans for tales that orientate a BOOKS The Witch of the Wardrobe When it comes to the alchemy of individual style, super stylist and ex-Vogue contributing editor Bay Garnett has magic powers. In fact, she literally wrote the book ... I had been gently thinking about working on a book for a little while; how nice it would be to d TRAVEL TRAVEL Letter from Alghero Tim Magee revisits Northern Sardinia W hat if the Spanish Armada had succeeded? No British Empire. No English-speaking America, Canada or Oz. A very different India. Wed still probably rebel at some stage the Spanish King wasnt much more craic than Elizabeth. P ENVIRONMENT A Drop in The Ocean Holly Hughes discovers how an Irish start-up uses AI P erhaps it is the career I am in, but over the past few months it has increasingly felt like AI is taking over the world. Thoughts on AI range from, Its the end of the world! to, Its the beginning of a whole ne Open for individual style Flex Design CHOOSE A FINISHING TOUCH TO MATCH YOUR KITCHENS AESTHETIC NOW AND LATER Brushed Bronze Anthracite Grey Metallic Silver Deep Black Visit our Home of Innovation Dublin Showroom, we also offer video or phone consultations. 01 4009800 ext. 3 homeofinnovatio