The Sportswriter
Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning
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How to Be an Optimist and Be a Novelist
In the space of about two weeks, I wrote 30,000 words of what was going to be the great Irish novel. What do you mean you can't be a cynic and be a novelist? Well, you have to believe that good exists. "I'm an optimist, actually, is what I am," he says. The bass cum sports writer comes from your own life according to Richards.
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