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Barry Pierce

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  • Freelance Fashion Writer and Book Critic, Freelance
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As seen in: The Times, The Irish Times, British GQ, British Vogue, Dazed Magazine, Letterboxd, i-D, V Magazine, AnOther Magazine, The Big Issue and
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The Golden Meme: Is it Time to Say Yass to Yassification? - ELEPHANT

The Golden Meme: Is it Time to Say Yass to Yassification? - ELEPHANT

Elephant Magazine — Take a famous figure, literally anyone from Peter Falk to Charles II of Spain. Then blow out their hair, plump their lips, engrave a contour and make them shimmer. This purposefully tacky form of image manipulation is known as yassification and your timeline has probably been inundated with yassterpieces in recent days.
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Disappearing Act: Wrong medium for a method actor

Disappearing Act: Wrong medium for a method actor

Irish Times — Sign up for alerts from The Irish Times Just click on "Allow Notifications" on the message appearing on your browser to activate them. We will send you a quick reminder in the future, in case you change your mind.
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Lessons on Art, Failure and Filmmaking With Gus Van Sant

Lessons on Art, Failure and Filmmaking With Gus Van Sant

AnOther Magazine — Gus Van Sant is a director who has never forgotten his independent roots. When not helming multi-awarding winning studio pictures such as Good Will Hunting (1997) and Milk (2008), he spends his time working with the wholly amateur casts of Elephant (2003) and Paranoid Park (2007).
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Patricia Lockwood is searching for the last truly offline person

Patricia Lockwood is searching for the last truly offline person

Dazed Magazine — The Booker nominee talks her debut novel No One is Talking About This, being the Booker’s ‘Internet Writer’, and whether Twitter is really giving us brain worms
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Cloud Cuckoo Land: Masterfully plotted genre-bending epic

Cloud Cuckoo Land: Masterfully plotted genre-bending epic

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A Calling for Charlie Barnes: Joshua Ferris finally steps up to the plate

A Calling for Charlie Barnes: Joshua Ferris finally steps up to the plate

Irish Times — Sign up for alerts from The Irish Times Just click on "Allow Notifications" on the message appearing on your browser to activate them. We will send you a quick reminder in the future, in case you change your mind.
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Dennis Cooper: "I've Never Written a Book That's Personal Like This Before"

Dennis Cooper: "I've Never Written a Book That's Personal Like This Before"

AnOther Magazine — There are few writers like Dennis Cooper. To read his novels is to gaze into the bleakest depths of humanity and to come out the other side feeling utterly violated. What more could you want? Murder, rape, paedophilia, incest and castration are all constants throughout Cooper's work and have led him to win praise from transgressive icons such as Kathy Acker and William Burroughs.
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Book review: Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? - here's to Irish dads

Book review: Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? - here's to Irish dads

The Times — Should anyone under the age of 40 have a memoir? Or, actually, should anyone under the age of 40 and who isn't Drew Barrymore have a memoir? Observers of the publishing industry will have noticed that seemingly everyone is writing one these days.
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Paris Lees: 'I'm refusing the trans misery narrative'

Paris Lees: 'I'm refusing the trans misery narrative'

Dazed Magazine — "I feel hugely nostalgic for 2001," Paris Lees tells me over a phone call on a characteristically bland Tuesday afternoon. "It's been my means of escapism from where we're at in 2021 where everything feels like a huge argument all the time."
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Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell review - stories worth the wait

Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell review - stories worth the wait

The Times — Lucy Caldwell's latest collection of short stories, Intimacies, has taken nearly a year to get to us. Originally slated for a June 2020 release, it found itself cast adrift into publishing limbo as the industry floundered in dealing with the pandemic. Thankfully, the wait was more than worth it.
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Above the rank and file

Above the rank and file

The Times — We've all spent a great deal of time in lines recently. Queuing for the supermarket, queuing for the café - it's somewhat unbelievable to think we were once able to just traipse into places. Yet, as abhorrent as all this lining up has been, spare a thought for the characters in Niall Bourke's debut novel Line.
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Corpsing by Sophie White review - laughter in the face of death

Corpsing by Sophie White review - laughter in the face of death

The Times — Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows by Sophie White Tramp Press £12.99 pp224 If you've ever waded into the murky waters of the internet, through the depths of creepypastas, and found yourself enlightened, then you definitely have a friend in Sophie White.
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Book review: Life Sentences, by Billy O'Callaghan

Book review: Life Sentences, by Billy O'Callaghan

The Times — Cork author Billy O'Callaghan performs a sort of ventriloquism in Life Sentences. Delving into his own past for inspiration, his novel follows three family members, in first person, as they recount the stories of their lives.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: A masterclass in how to write by George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: A masterclass in how to write by George Saunders

Irish Times — The career of the modern writer: write a great work (or, in some cases, just write a work); wait for some random university to hire you under some honorary title; sit in a shared office that has the same atmosphere as a European hostel; be occasionally wheeled out to impart your great knowledge upon the next generation of would-be adjunct professors; be grateful you survived another year.
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Books in Brief: Harry Crosbie's stories tell of life in Dublin a generation ago

Books in Brief: Harry Crosbie's stories tell of life in Dublin a generation ago

Irish Times — Undernose Farm By Harry Crosbie Lilliput Press, €12 He is the man who turned a disused railway station into Ireland's biggest music venue which some of us still call The Point. But if Harry Crosbie has his way, he will also be remembered as a writer.
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Bear sex and gay stuff: i-D's alt reading list for 2021

Bear sex and gay stuff: i-D's alt reading list for 2021

i-D-UK — Whether you like it or not, it's looking like 2021 will be the year we all get back into reading. Of course, we've all developed the intellectual capacity to binge a Netflix series or watch movies, but such acts only kill a few hours.
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Sally Rooney, Naoise Dolan, and Niamh Campbell Have Founded the 'Trinity School'

Sally Rooney, Naoise Dolan, and Niamh Campbell Have Founded the 'Trinity School'

universitytimes.ie — It's that old joke, isn't it? How can you tell if someone went to Trinity? Don't worry, they'll tell you. I've had that joke loitering in my mind a lot lately, not only because nothing fills me with a greater satisfaction, gives me that buzz or delights me more than dunking on grand old Trinners, but because it is a rather apt summation of a trend I've noticed in Irish literature lately.
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Slag Wars is the future of queer reality TV

Slag Wars is the future of queer reality TV

Dazed Magazine — I think it goes without saying that 2020 was a year. Jesy left Little Mix, Derek Acorah died, people kept trying to make Lauv happen, and on top of all of that, there was a pandemic. It seemed there was no way of saving 2020.
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The First Woman: A proudly Ugandan novel dense with mythology

The First Woman: A proudly Ugandan novel dense with mythology

Irish Times — How do you solve a problem like the Bildungsroman? Whereas some literary genres tend to fluctuate in popularity over time, rolling in and out of vogue like the waves, the coming-of-age story has stayed firmly buoyed - part blinding in its familiar orange glow, part covered in guano.
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David Bailey: 'I always thought the Sixties was a small group of people'

David Bailey: 'I always thought the Sixties was a small group of people'

Irish Times — The walls of David Bailey's studio are replete with some of his most famous shots. Kate Moss with her hair backcombed into a frenzy. Penelope Tree posing as Mickey Mouse. The Krays looking as if they're modelling Tom Ford.
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Superb pieces demonstrating Gabriel García Márquez's first love

Superb pieces demonstrating Gabriel García Márquez's first love

Irish Times — King Kong Theory By Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne Fitzcarraldo Editions, £10.99 When I grow up, I want to be Virginie Despentes. The French writer is famed for her immeasurably controversial debut novel Baise-Moi and its film adaptation, which she co-directed.
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Ghosts: Dolly Alderton's debut novel haunts, but not in a good way

Ghosts: Dolly Alderton's debut novel haunts, but not in a good way

Irish Times — Never let anyone claim that being a critic is a soft job, I constantly put my life on the line. For example, just the other day I was leaving Mile End tube station when I felt the whoosh of a bullet miss my head by mere inches.
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Home Stretch: Graham Norton's popular fiction version of a queer novel

Home Stretch: Graham Norton's popular fiction version of a queer novel

Irish Times — It has to be one of the strangest ever career moves that Graham Norton, once a gloriously trashy comedian and presenter of X-rated late-night talk shows, now finds himself a bestselling novelist and one of the most universally beloved faces of the BBC.
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Death in Her Hands: A rare disaster from Ottessa Moshfegh

Death in Her Hands: A rare disaster from Ottessa Moshfegh

Irish Times — You're in New York, it's 1962, and you're in the audience for the premiere of Aaron Copland's newest work, Connotations. You don't know it yet, but you're about to witness one of the most public failures of 20th-century classical music.
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