Ghostwriting, Cold War Propaganda, & Coming Back from a Five-Week Coma w/ Luke Francis Beirne

In this interview, we chat with Luke Francis Beirne about literature versus entertainment, Atlantic Canadian textures, a literary marriage proposal, and so much more.    

 Luke Francis Beirne was born in Ireland in 1995 and now lives on Wolastoqey land in Saint John, New Brunswick. Beirne has published three novels with Baraka Books, Foxhunt, Blacklion and Saints Rest. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in outlets such as Counterpunch, NB Media Co-op, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Honest Ulsterman, and CrimeReads. 

Books mentioned in this episode: 

• Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King — Caroline Bicks 
• The Last Thing He Wanted — Joan Didion 
• The Quiet American — Graham Greene 
• The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett 
• The Outsiders — S. E. Hinton 
• The Bamboo Blonde; In a Lonely Place — Dorothy B. Hughes 
• Hatchet — Gary Paulsen 
• How Fiction Works — James Wood