I can squeeze an SUV into a spot meant for a scooter.īrutal honesty is delivered from a place of unconditional love. The tragic part is I’m always best when I’m alone. I’m an extraordinarily gifted parallel parker. I find running and writing go very well together. On writing: Never begin until you feel like a pot about to boil over.ĭo you strike up conversations on long plane rides?
Sitting on my father’s shoulders and letting go of a balloon. My salary barely covered my rent, but I took the job so that I might learn a little about book publishing, and I did. (I started the rumor.)įrom a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan, and There, There by Tommy Orange.Ī receptionist at a literary agency on Bleecker Street in New York. When I’m at my bossiest I think that might be her coming out in me. There’s a family rumor that we are descendants of her on my father’s side. She was probably insufferable to be around, but still, I’ve been obsessed since I first heard of her as a child. What a ball-busting powerhouse of a woman, but in my imagination she has perfect, flowing hair and a great tailor-making her pirate outfits. Gráinne O’Malley, 16th-century pirate queen of Ireland. I got ruined on book tours and now even when I’m footing the bill I think a swanky hotel is usually worth every penny. Then the next day it starts all over again. Then at the end of every day, I call myself out on being an attention-seeking terrible person, and I vow to be more modest starting tomorrow. I have a new book out, and things are going very well for it, but I’ve noticed I’m not quite as sick of talking about it as I really should be. Mary Beth lives in Pearl River, New York, with her husband and their two sons.Ī mix of joy and anticipation and self-loathing. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing. She is also the author of The Walking People, and FEVER (about Mary Mallon, known as Typhoid Mary). Mary Beth is the daughter of Irish immigrants – her mother is from Mayo and her father is from Connemara – and she writes with deep familiarity about the Irish in her books. NPR’s Maureen Corrigan called it “one of the most unpretentiously profound books I’ve read in a long time.” Told with tenderness and empathy for the human condition, it is juxtaposed with just the right amount of humor to carry the story along. Mary Beth Keane’s novel, Ask Again, Yes, is a lyrical, moving tale spanning 40 years about family, love, alcoholism, and mental illness. On swanky hotels, Gráinne O’Malley’s tailor-made pirate outfits, and her own unusual hidden talent.
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