Barry Callaghan

Callaghan's writing is wide ranging but often takes on the perspective of a marginalized individual's view of the human experience. These tales are told in a variety of voices: street hustlers, priests, blues singers, Holocaust survivors, cross-dressers, paramilitary snipers, even those we may euphemistically consider the "ordinary"-all of them authentic, and all would subscribe to the maxim that "happiness is overrated." The dialogue is true to speech...