Articles in Art & Literature
In the third instalment (see previous instalments here) of my ‘Final Page’ series, I now present the last page of my Mafia novel ‘Vito Schillaci’. Though critical response was muted when first published in 1987, …
In 2003, writer and producer David Crane approached me to guest-write a one-off, racist episode of the multi-award winning sitcom Friends. Laughs were put on hiatus, and characters instead asked to negotiate a gritty, thought-provoking …
In the second instalment (see the first here) of my ‘Final Page’ series, I now present the last page of my crime novel ‘Grizzled Justice’. First published in 2003, it reinvented the buddy-cop genre by mismatching bickering …
As a veteran of over sixty novels, nobody could quibble when I label myself Ireland’s greatest ever fiction writer. That’s about fifty-five books more than James Joyce, who nestles immediately below me in the pecking …
Look!!! Is Me!! Yes!! Just next to Mehmet Ali Agca!
Here is my story, a bit. I am humble not very well known diminutive Spanish man born in Madrid, 1953. My father was notorious brave airman …
by David Shrigley
from the book “Ants have sex in your beer”
Makes me chuckle every time!



