The Art of Reading Book Club with Colm Tóibín | Episode 18: 'Nothing Special' by Nicole Flattery

The Arts Council Podcast

The July Art of Reading book club features Laureate for Irish Fiction Colm Tóibín in conversation with writer Nicole Flattery about her short story collection ‘Nothing Special’ “Nothing Special is set at a very particular New York moment. It is 1966. Mae, the protagonist, lands a job as typist for the artist Andy Warhol who is embarking on an unconventional novel by taping the conversations of his associates and friend. Mae moves on the edges of Warhol’s world, attending the counterculture parties. The novel dramatizes her coming of-age in Warhol’s New York.” — Colm Tóibín Nicole Flattery’s story collection Show Them A Good Time was published by The Stinging Fly in Ireland and Bloomsbury in the UK in 2019. Her novel Nothing Special is forthcoming in 2023. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the London Review of Books and Sight & Sound Magazine. Learn more about the Art of Reading Book Club and the Laureate for Irish Fiction programme: https://www.artscouncil.ie/Arts-in-Ireland/Literature/Laureate-for-Irish-Fiction/The-Art-of-Reading-Book-Club/