13 Questions About Books

Anthony McIntyre is a former IRA volunteer who spent 18 years in prison, participating in the blanket protest and other protests which culminated in the hunger strikes of the 1980s. He is a journalist and activist, and a long-standing internet friend of mine, even though I only met him once when he and his wife Carrie (who had been reading and participating on my site for years) opened their home to Allison and I when we visited Belfast. We had such an extraordinary visit! Anthony and Carrie both do very important and sometimes dangerous work in northern Irish politics, and I was happy to participate in an ongoing series on their site The Pensive Quill: Booker’s Dozen. Anthony asked 13 questions about books. I answered. Let’s hear it for Elinor Lipman!