I grew up in the west of Ireland and started writing from a young age. I like anything written by Cormac McCarthy and Gabriel García Márquez. The films of Kubrick, Tarkovsky, and Paul Thomas Anderson are my favourite, and I love a good horror movie.
A maverick teacher returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.