Kevin Barry

Novelist

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Irish Novelist Kevin Barry Picks Three

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

This week’s Pick Three comes to us from the award winning Irish novelist and writer Kevin Barry. His first novel, called City of Bohane was set in a dystopian near future. But his new...

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New York Subway Album Art; Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Plays Live; Kevin Barry Picks Three

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

In this episode: The New York City Subway has inspired album artwork for records by The Velvet Underground, Grandmaster Flash, and Billy Joel, among many others. Robert Del Bagno, the curator of a new exhibition at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn, talks about subway-related album art. Plus, Latin soul king Joe Bataan tells the story behind his infectious 1968 boogaloo hit "Subway Joe."

Then, Detroit-based indie rock band Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. -- named for the NASCAR hero -- performs songs from its new record The Speed Of Things in the Soundcheck studio. 

And Kevin Barry, the award-winning Irish author of City Of Bohane and a new short story collection Dark Lies The Island shares a few favorite songs for Soundcheck's Pick Three series.

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Kevin Barry's Dark Lies the Island

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Kevin Barry talks about his new collection of stories about misspent love and crimes gone horribly wrong, Dark Lies the Island.

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