May 10, 2010
FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE GREAT BRITISH PUBLIC
I never thought I’d say this but I’m...
Read More
I never thought I’d say this but I’m...
My life in 8 words: "Apparently conventional and uninteresting, actually an unfathomable conundrum"
The Age of Absurdity will be released on February 03, 2011 in Trade Paperback, Mass Market Paperback
about 2 hours ago
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Michael Foley appearancesJul 31, 2010
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Michael Foley appearancesJul 23, 2010
Author Voices:
FALLING IN LOVE WITH THE GREAT BRITISH PUBLICMay 11, 2010
Author Voices:
BEYOND ABSURDITYMar 23, 2010
The Age of Absurdity will be released on February 04, 2010 in Trade Paperback
Feb 04, 2010
The Age of Absurdity is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 04, 2010
Author Voices:
THE ABSURD PROJECTJan 14, 2010
Author Revealed Answer:
How would you describe your life in only 8 words?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your motto or maxim?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
How would you describe perfect happiness?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What’s your greatest fear?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you choose to be?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
With whom in history do you most identify?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
Which living person do you most admire?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What are your most overused words or phrases?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What do you regret most?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
If you could acquire any talent, what would it be?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your greatest achievement?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What’s your greatest flaw?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What’s your best quality?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What trait is most noticeable about you?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
Who is your favorite fictional hero?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
Who is your favorite fictional villain?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your biggest pet peeve?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your favorite occupation, when you’re not writing?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What’s your fantasy profession?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What 3 personal qualities are most important to you?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What are your 5 favorite songs?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
Who are your favorite authors?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What are your 5 favorite books of all time?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
Is there a book you love to reread?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
Do you have one sentence of advice for new writers?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What comment do you hear most often from your readers?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your birthdate?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What were your previous occupations?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What was/is your favorite job?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
Where did you go to high school and/or college?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
Name of your favorite composer or music artist?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your favorite movie?Nov 25, 2009
Author Revealed Answer:
What is your favorite television show?Nov 25, 2009
Authors on the Web
Washington Post, July 4, 2010
...and it, too, is terrific. 3. "The New Senate: Liberal Influence on a Conservative Institution, 1959-72," by Michael Foley (1980) Focusing on the Democratic class of 1958, which included a young Robert C. Byrd, Foley shows us the important mischief they...
Guardian.co.uk, April 9, 2010
... The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy by Michael Foley Stuart Jeffries takes heart from a deconstruction of our ludicrous zeitgeist Selfishness, good health and stupidity are, Flaubert suggested, the prerequisites of happiness....
Irish Times, February 27, 2010
...?I think it?s sad that the Enquirer is being considered for such a venerable prize,? says media-watcher Michael Foley, who teaches communications at the Dublin Institute of Technology. ?Are they getting the nomination for good investigative journalism or...
Guardian.co.uk, February 20, 2010
...Everything about modern life conditions you for a life of unhappiness, broken dreams and thwarted ambition. Michael Foley's entertaining, intelligent book may just help you get over yourself, writes Phil Hogan Michael Foley won't give a hoot for what I...
Guardian.co.uk, February 20, 2010
... Everything about modern life conditions you for a life of unhappiness, broken dreams and thwarted ambition. Michael Foley's entertaining, intelligent book may just help you get over yourself, writes Phil Hogan Michael Foley won't give a hoot for what I...
New Scientist, February 10, 2010
...issues. For similar stories, visit the Books and Art Topic Guide Book information The Age of Absurdity by Michael Foley Published by: Simon & Schuster Price: £10.99 THERE seems little point in raging publicly at the ills of modern life unless you can...
Irish Times, January 1, 2010
...Little Brown, April), Sheena Iyengar wonders whether our desire for it is innate or dictated by culture. Derry-born Michael Foley explains how wellbeing is undermined by the age we live in in The Age of Absurdity :Why Modern Life Makes it Hard to Be...
PR-USA.net, November 28, 2009
...Games themed books on the shortlist. Mickey Harte’s autobiography, Harte: Presence is the Only Thing, written with Michael Foley has made the last six, as has Damian Lawlor’s tale of a year with the Waterford footballers, Working on a Dream. Dónal...
Irish Times, November 25, 2009
...Gaelic Games themed books on the shortlist. Mickey Hartes autobiography, Harte: Presence is the Only Thing , written with Michael Foley has made the last six, as has Damian Lawlors tale of a year with the Waterford footballers, Working on a Dream ....
Longford Leader, September 26, 2009
...stories from our school days, from the 'Wedding in the Bushes' to 'To School through the Woods'. Poet, Michael Foley of Farnaught penned three poems for the book and did another past pupil, Margaret Lloyd Lawrence who documented in verse pleasant...
disassociated.com, April 25, 2010
...Author Michael Foley’s list of top 10 absurd classics that you may – or may not – wish to read...
Blog O' The Irish, March 20, 2010
...returned home for the first time in many years to care for her dying mother. 36.Beyond by Michael Foley: Set in the 1960s, this book follows one man as he gets caught up in the liberation of the sexual revolution happening in the era. 37.A Wild People...
An Spailpín Fánach, February 28, 2010
...The Revolution Years . Secondly, Keith Duggan wrote his great threnody of Mayo football, House of Pain . And finally, Michael Foley published what is the best of all three, Kings of September , about how Offaly denied Kerry five All-Ireland football...
Emerging Writer, February 7, 2010
...poets, particularly women poets. Blackstaff Editor: ? . Belfast, Publishes: Patrick Crotty, Andrew Elliott, C.L. Dallat, Gerard Dawe, Michael Foley Not currently accepting submissions. New Island Editor: ?, Dublin, Publishes: Tom MacIntyre, Anthony...
Phawker, February 4, 2010
...BY DAVE ALLEN Like time, news waits for no man. Keeping up with the funny papers has always been an all-day job, even in the pre-Internets era. These days, however, it’s a two-man job. That’s right, these days you need someone to do your reading for...
Integral Options Cafe, January 29, 2010
...Bookshop price: £11.99 The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy By Michael Foley Simon & Schuster £10.99, 272 pages FT Bookshop price: £8.79 The Happiness Project: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My...
Green and Red, November 12, 2009
...still found it to be quite a compelling and worthwhile read. For starters, Mickey chose well in getting Michael Foley to ghost it for him – Foley is a talented journalist and his Kings of September ranks as one of the better GAA books in recent years...
