{"id":865,"date":"2014-03-22T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T10:23:14","slug":"banter-at-cuirt-2014-077-apr-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/banter-at-cuirt-2014-077-apr-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Banter at C\u00fairt 2014 (079, Apr 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More announcements from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/\">Banter<\/a>\u00a0universe to join last week\u2019s flurry about our conversations with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/2014\/03\/04\/a-conversation-with-jon-ronson-075-mar-2014\/\">Jon Ronson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/2014\/03\/05\/a-conversation-with-ben-watt-074-mar-2014\/\">Ben Watt<\/a>\u00a0(both of which are nearly sold out) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/2014\/03\/06\/banter-on-irish-indentity-past-present-and-future-074-mar-2014\/\">our discussion on Irish identity at the St Patrick\u2019s Day Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve one more Banter-related announcement to come this week, but today is all about our first visit to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cuirt.ie\/\">C\u00fairt International Festival of Literature<\/a>\u00a0in Galway in April.<\/p>\n<p>Banter will be hosting three events in all on Saturday April 12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coffee and Cronuts with Sam Lipsyte<\/strong>: an interview with one of America\u2019s best and funniest fiction writers. Have a coffee, enjoy a cronut and hear what\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/thefunparts\/SamLipsyte\">Sam<\/a>\u00a0has to say about the art of sardonic writing (and cronuts).\u00a0<strong>Busker Brownes, 11am, admission \u20ac8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Music Book Club<\/strong>: what do musicians read? Who are their favourite writers? What effect, if any, do those writers have on their songs and music. Join us for some book chat with special guests\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crowleyadrian\">Adrian Crowley<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kneelsea\">N\u00edal Conlon<\/a>\u00a0from Delorentos and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariadk.com\/%E2%80%8E\">Maria Doyle Kennedy<\/a>.\u00a0<strong>Roisin Dubh, 3pm, \u20ac8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts about fiction with Rhianna Pratchett<\/strong>. An award-winning scriptwriter, story designer and general narrative paramedic,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rhiannapratchett.com\/\">Rhianna<\/a>\u00a0has worked on such titles as Tomb Raider, Heavenly Sword, Overlord, Bioshock Infinite and Mirror\u2019s Edge, as well as a plethora of screenplays and comics. She joins us to talk about the nuts and bolts of how to tell stories in games, develop a narrative and collaborate with a team.\u00a0<strong>An Taibhdhearc, 5pm \u20ac8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.joystiq.com\/media\/2012\/07\/rhiannapratchett530px.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can find full details of the rest of the C\u00fairt programme \u2013 including Hugo Hamilton, Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Kathleen McMahon, Anakana Schofield, Colin Barrett, Patrick deWitt, recent Banter guests Donal Ryan and Eimear McBride and many, many more \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cuirt.ie\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More announcements from the\u00a0Banter\u00a0universe to join last week\u2019s flurry about our conversations with\u00a0Jon Ronson\u00a0and\u00a0Ben Watt\u00a0(both of which are nearly sold out) and\u00a0our discussion on Irish identity at the St Patrick\u2019s Day Festival. We\u2019ve one more Banter-related announcement to come this week, but today is all about our first visit to the\u00a0C\u00fairt International Festival of Literature\u00a0in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/banter-at-cuirt-2014-077-apr-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Banter at C\u00fairt 2014 (079, Apr 2014)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}