Samuel Beckett is Closed

Michael Coffey

Author Michael Coffey has published a new book called Samuel Beckett is Closed. Written according to a sequence laid out by Beckett in his notes to the unpublished manuscript, “Long Observations of the Ray,” Coffey’s book is a mediation that shifts through numerous themes that range from a NY Mets Baseball game in 1964 to 9/11 and Guantanamo Bay. The LA Review of Books writes, “By breaking rules of genre and narrative, by embracing experimental form, Coffey’s work raises questions about how contemporary artists might work to resist the status quo through a subversive, fragmentary style that makes it impossible for us to look away from our political reality.” Formerly Managing Director of Publishers Weekly, Coffey is an accomplished poet, short story writer and non-fiction writer. He co-edited with Terry Golway the PBS-series book, The Irish in America, and authored a book called 27 Men Out: Baseball’s Perfect Games.
Foxrock Books | $22 cloth | 208 pages | February 2018 | michaelcoffeyauthor.com