In the woods near his home in Ireland, author Kevin Barry found the answer to something that had nagged him for more than 20 years. “One day, late in the pandemic, I was walking in the mountains in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Kevin Barry - Patrick Bolger In his cheerfully chilly house in a small Irish village in County Sligo, Kevin Barry is ...

Kevin Barry didn’t have to look far afield to create the male lead of his new novel, “The Heart in Winter.” Tom, an Irish immigrant in 1890s Butte, Mont., is a “29-year-old disaster of a man. A kind ...

Irish novelist Kevin Barry has written a classic Western with Irish brogue in his new book, "The Heart in Winter." When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters overdeliver. Sign-up ...

Steal money, torch a hotel and ride off into the sunset with another man’s wife. The things we do for love. The wayward hero of the brilliant Irish writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in the United ...

Even after doing research in Montana, a draft of the book that became “The Heart in Winter” was “dead on the page,” he says. Back in Ireland, the runaway lovers now at its center “suddenly appeared to ...

“I have a slightly depressing theory,” the Irish writer Kevin Barry recently said. “If you look at any favorite novelist, the best novels are often number four, five, six. After that it tends to go ...

In the woods near his home in Ireland, author Kevin Barry found the answer to something that had nagged him for more than 20 years. “One day, late in the pandemic, I was walking in the mountains in ...