Book review: Writers past meet their present-day peers in a revisitation of The Bell

Each story is matched to a ‘response’ from a contemporary writer. These responses come in different shapes and sizes: literary criticism, personal memoir, new stories, homages.

Frank O'Connor - an original contributor to The Bell, whose work is reublished and responded to in 'The Writer's Torch'

• The Writer’s Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell
• Ed. Phyllis Boumans, Elke D’hoker and Declan Meade (The Stinging Fly)