Eliza Barry Callahan

1 month ago | bombmagazine.org | Eliza Barry Callahan |Leslie Jamison |Maggie Nelson

Eliza Barry Callahan's debut novel, The Hearing Test (Catapult, 2025), begins with a drone in her right ear, diagnosed as sudden deafness, that becomes a volatile score, an episode of life seen from an inaudible place outside one’s life, and a white noise exploration of consciousness and time-travel through the partly blanked-out layers of a self. I read the book in a single sitting, then read it again, and then again. I thought of Alice in Wonderland with its soundtrack whited out.

Jun 26, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Eliza Barry Callahan

By Eliza Barry Callahan June 26, 2024 I said, What does it feel like in there? What do you mean, she said. I said, For example, is it light or is it dark? She said, It’s light by the windows. And then she said, It’s airy if the windows are open. Is that all? She said it was a bad time. She would rather I not come inside the house. Boxes were everywhere. Everything was in the boxes. She said that her brother had died on New Year’s Day. More boxes.

Jun 11, 2024 | interviewmagazine.com | Eliza Barry Callahan |Jake Nevins

“I’ve never heard of you. good luck with your book tho !” wrote Charli XCX last February in a quip directed toward the writer Gabriel Smith, the mastermind behind a fabricated email on X, formerly Twitter, claiming the cult-favorite pop star had requested to borrow the title of his debut novel for her own record, released last week to critical and commercial acclaim.

May 22, 2024 | anothermag.com | Susie Boyt |Eliza Barry Callahan |Olga Tokarczuk |Heather Lewis

With new titles being released by Philippa Snow, Olga Tokarczuk, Constance Debré and more, here are ten books to add to your reading list over the summer months The only curatorial theme for this list is that these are recently published books. Though not all strictly contemporary – some are reissues and some are in translation – each title was either published over the past few months, or is set to come out over the coming summer.

May 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Eliza Barry Callahan

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