Kevin Barry: 'I take reality as a bit of a springboard'

The Limerick writer's latest collection of stories, That Old Country Music, sees a slight shift in style, as a well as reflections of his current homeplace in Co Sligo

Author Kevin Barry says the short story is a ‘very mysterious form and the more you do it, it’s like the less you know about them’. Picture: Darragh Kane

• That Old Country Music
• Kevin Barry
• Canongate, €16.99