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Hey Frankie featured in Minor Literatures

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This is quite a personal piece that expands into something much larger, spanning centuries and disciplines. I no longer live in the appartement where I started writing this, and of course the inn where the Frankensteins all too briefly honeymooned is a fictional place created by Mary Shelley and extrapolated upon by me here. Theoretically it could have been the same place, but that element of this essay is essentially a fiction, from both Shelly and myself, but the rest of what I mention is pretty much factual.  The title derives from a 1985 hit tune by Sister Sledge which you can hear here: (trigger warning - earworm alert) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu2k0Ygnkqc But before you do that you might want to read the piece here. Please read it slowly, if you can. https://minorliteratures.com/2025/06/05/hey-frankie-marc-de-faoite/
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My Irish Times article featured in Courrier International

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A little while back I wrote a piece for the Irish Times about moving back to France after 15 years in Malaysia ( link here ). Courrier International asked me if they could use it and have translated it into French and featured it in their latest edition ( link here ).
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SECONDE MAIN - a collaboration between Michel Lagrange, David Carmack Lewis, & Marc de Faoite

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 Seconde Main (Second Hand) is a collection of 13 poems by the French poet Michel Lagrange.  Each of the poems are inspired by different paintings by the contemporary American painter and muralist  David Carmack Lewis.  Marc de Faoite has translated the poems from French to English and collectively these three collaborators have created a bi-lingual book featuring the poems and the images that inspired the poems.  The first edition was limited to 250 hand numbered copies signed by the artist.  Second Main is currently available for purchase  here  and from  47 Baker Street  bookshop in Evian-les-Bains, 74500 France
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I wrote about Returning to France after 15 years for The Irish Times

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I moved to France in 1995 after 5 years in Brussels. I left for Malaysia in 2007, but a certain virus and an editing job I did on a certain politically charged book made a future there untenable. So I moved back to France and found a place quite different to the one I had left. I wrote a short piece for The Irish Times about some of the changes I have noticed since I moved back, but unfortunately it is paywalled.
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Le Temps des Cerises featured in Minor Literature[s]

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  Bocar usually got home just before me. I sometimes wondered if we hadn’t shared the same train. He worked the late shift in an unnamed branch of the many-tentacled RATP. He was a ... read more or click the image below
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Walking in the Red Zone with my Grandmother's Bones - featured in the Honest Ulsterman

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I'm delighted to have this very personal story featured in the Honest Ulsterman https://www.humag.co/prose/walking-in-the-red-zone-with-my-grandmother-s-bones
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Even more ways for you to pre-order LIME PICKLED and Other Stories

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Good News. Lime Pickled and Other Stories is now available for pre-order from even more online retailers. Here is a link that will bring you to a number of different options: https://books2read.com/u/3yVyyv
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