{"id":8679,"date":"2008-12-09T08:10:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T13:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2015-06-19T07:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T11:51:38","slug":"interviewing-benjamin-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8679","title":{"rendered":"Interviewing Benjamin Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot get enough of the John Banville \/ Benjamin Black thing.  It makes me think of my father.  Banville is one of his favorite writers.  He turned me on to him.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/2008\/12\/guest-profile-p.html\">Part 1 of a 4-part interview with Benjamin Black<\/a>.  Not John Banville.  Benjamin Black.<\/p>\n<p>And here is <a href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/2008\/12\/tev-guest-profi.html\">Part 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love how much FUN he&#8217;s having.  It really shows in those books.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to write noir fiction, Dublin in the 1950s is just the place for it.\u00e2\u0080\u009d  says Benjamin Black.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my other posts on Banville \/ Black:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8275\">John Banville&#8217;s alter ego<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7942\"><i>The Sea<\/i> by John Banville<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7924\">John Banville \/ Benjamin Black<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3730\">Booker Prize brou-haha<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0312680732&#038;asins=0312680732&#038;linkId=6EBOMGTXT3HQPVVJ&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0312426321&#038;asins=0312426321&#038;linkId=ELSKHI7DIWOLWWR6&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0312428243&#038;asins=0312428243&#038;linkId=WMZOMQUG2Y46LAZT&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot get enough of the John Banville \/ Benjamin Black thing. It makes me think of my father. Banville is one of his favorite writers. He turned me on to him. Here is Part 1 of a 4-part interview &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8679\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[35,215],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104046,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8679\/revisions\/104046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}