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Sally Rooney and Joanna Walsh in Conversation

Sally Rooney & Joanna Walsh

‘What I’m trying to do is to find ways of expressing myself which try to subvert those forms in order to make the speech act, or the writing act, transgressive in a way.’

Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney is an Irish writer and the editor of Stinging Fly. She is the author of two novels, Conversations with Friends and Normal People, forthcoming from Faber & Faber.

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Joanna Walsh

Joanna Walsh’s writing has been published by Dalkey, Granta, Salt and others. Her books include Fractals, Hotel and Vertigo. She writes criticism for the Guardian, the New Statesman, and the National (UAE) and is fiction editor at 3:AM Magazine. She also runs #readwomen, described by the New York Times as ‘a rallying cry for equal treatment for women writers’.

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