On the Importance of People and Place: An Encounter with Sarah Davis-Goff

I MET SARAH DAVIS-GOFF, novelist and editor, at a café in Dublin to talk about publishing, her recent novel, and the particular moment Irish literature is having. After our drinks — she had a soy latte, I drank green tea — she pushed open the door, exposing a scar on her wrist. “I got it […] The post On the Importance of People and Place: An Encounter with Sarah Davis-Goff appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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