At a Writers Bloc forum, the Man Booker-winning novelist talked about penning a new tale involving the classic pulp detective. By Thea Klapwald The Black Eyed Blonde Book Cover - P 2014 What do ...

Charleston County School of the Arts teacher John Cusatis has co-edited with Earl Ingersoll a new book “Conversations with John Banville,” released by the University Press of Mississippi in May. The ...

The Irish author John Banville is leading a double life, said Mark Egan in Reuters.com. Half the time, he’s simply his old self—the creator of such “serious” literary works as The Sea and The Book of ...

MADRID — It’s the eyes peering from the canvases that get him, their gaze piercing the boundary between art and life. That’s why acclaimed Irish novelist John Banville prefers to visit Spain’s Prado ...

"I'm proud of the Benjamin Black books in the way that a craftsman would be proud of a nicely finished table," Banville says. "John Banville books I loathe and despise and hate. They're a standing ...

The acclaimed and accomplished Irish writer John Banville, who is probably best known in America for his crime novels written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, has won about every prize the literary ...

Should you be in need of a visit to the seaside, here’s one way to get there: Join the Moira’s Seattle Times Book Club discussion of John Banville’s “The Sea ...

John Banville, the author of 16 novels and recipient of many literary accolades — including the 2005 Man Booker Prize for “The Sea” — arrived on campus Wednesday evening on a delayed Amtrak. Despite ...

Call it a victory for the not-so-old man and "The Sea." Irish novelist John Banville clinched the prestigious Man Booker Prize in 2005 for his 18th novel, "The Sea." If he awarded a Banville Prize for ...

“The appeal of the conventional crime novel,” the Irish writer John Banville once suggested, “is the sense of completion it offers.” Unlike life, bounded by the unremembered and—strictly ...

Very few authors could write a novel that's an homage to the great Raymond Chandler, a founding father of crime fiction, and do it in a pitch-perfect version of Chandler's distinctive voice. If an ...

John Banville and Cicero, his tour guide for "Time Pieces: A Dublin Memoir." (Courtesy of Paul Joyce/Knopf) The curiosity that we have about the lives of artists knows few bounds. That curiosity seems ...