THE
PHOENIX FEBRUARY 10, 2017
IRISH
TIMES literary correspondent
Eileen
Battersby would not have been
displeased
at her newspaper’s review last
autumn
of her first novel, Teethmarks
on
My Tongue, penned by Katherine
A
Powers – “remarkably accomplished
work
… excellence … dark wit” and so
on.
She will also be pleased the Sunday
Independent
has chosen, so far, not to
publish
a review commissioned over three
months
ago.
The
review by Desmond Traynor, an
occasional
reviewer at the Sindo, is less
complimentary
than Powers’s critique and
describes
the heroine, Helen’s chronicle
as
“self-involved and repetitious to the
point
that it resembles listening to someone
running
off at the mouth with a bad case
of
logorrhea”. There are other, more
withering
comments in Traynor’s review
but
mercifully the Sindo has failed to
publish
it.
Sindo
literary editor Madeleine Keane
declined
to comment when Goldhawk
innocently
inquired why the review had
not
yet been published. But it seems editor
Cormac
Bourke decided not to. There
was
a time when the Sindo would jump
at
the chance to dish it to those IT snobs.
Is
Bourke’s reticence part of the Sindo’s
new
and less provocative approach to rival
media?
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