In the good seats
In the good seats: Essays on film is a collection featuring some of the most talented writers working today, setting their sights on what’s so alluring and moving about film and cinema. A childhood movie encountered on the big screen, a favourite celluloid instant, a resonating discovery, an awkward first date; the threadbare seats, the click and whirr of the projector, the sense of scale expanding.
Each essayist in this book unearths those particularly breathless and unforgettable moments when their lives were touched by film. Like a projection of light beaming across a darkened hall, In the good seats, pulls us closer to those flickers of magic that film and cinema usher forth.
With contributions by Darran Anderson, Maggie Armstrong, Dodie Bellamy, Susannah Dickey, Maria Fusco, Francis Halsall, Daisy Lafarge, Michael Magee, Ian Maleney, Toye Oladinni, K Patrick, Devika Ponnambalam, Ali Smith, and Cathy Sweeney.
Publication date: 1 March 2025
Publicity: Peter O’Connell, peter@peteroconnellmedia.com
EXTS: 11 × 17.5 cm, 187 pp., 4 b/w ills., softcover
ISBN: 978-1-9161509-6-6
Design: Daly & Lyon
RRP: €15 / £13
This book is a little treasure – an orgy of enthusiasms from some of the liveliest minds and the sharpest pens around.
* Rob Doyle, author of ThresholdThe 14 pieces remind you how acutely linked cinema is to sentimentality and those tenuous formative years as we bottle into adulthood … Lots of registers and approaches, but what unites them is all that is versitile, hardworking, and always readily digestible essay format. We look forward to a fourth volume, whatever flavour it takes.
* Hilary White, Irish IndependentWhat is consistent here is the quality of the writing, as well as the various strolls down the rabbit-holes all over memory lane. A little book with a big sweep; it’s a good one for the movie buffs.
* Anne CunninghamIt's a perfect little thing. Such a variety of approaches ... A little gem of a book
* John Toal, BBC Radio UlsterA welcome annual literary addition.
* The Examiner
In the good seats: Essays on film is a collection featuring some of the most talented writers working today, setting their sights on what’s so alluring and moving about film and cinema. A childhood movie encountered on the big screen, a favourite celluloid instant, a resonating discovery, an awkward first date; the threadbare seats, the click and whirr of the projector, the sense of scale expanding.
Each essayist in this book unearths those particularly breathless and unforgettable moments when their lives were touched by film. Like a projection of light beaming across a darkened hall, In the good seats, pulls us closer to those flickers of magic that film and cinema usher forth.
With contributions by Darran Anderson, Maggie Armstrong, Dodie Bellamy, Susannah Dickey, Maria Fusco, Francis Halsall, Daisy Lafarge, Michael Magee, Ian Maleney, Toye Oladinni, K Patrick, Devika Ponnambalam, Ali Smith, and Cathy Sweeney.
Publication date: 1 March 2025
Publicity: Peter O’Connell, peter@peteroconnellmedia.com
EXTS: 11 × 17.5 cm, 187 pp., 4 b/w ills., softcover
ISBN: 978-1-9161509-6-6
Design: Daly & Lyon
RRP: €15 / £13
This book is a little treasure – an orgy of enthusiasms from some of the liveliest minds and the sharpest pens around.
* Rob Doyle, author of ThresholdThe 14 pieces remind you how acutely linked cinema is to sentimentality and those tenuous formative years as we bottle into adulthood … Lots of registers and approaches, but what unites them is all that is versitile, hardworking, and always readily digestible essay format. We look forward to a fourth volume, whatever flavour it takes.
* Hilary White, Irish IndependentWhat is consistent here is the quality of the writing, as well as the various strolls down the rabbit-holes all over memory lane. A little book with a big sweep; it’s a good one for the movie buffs.
* Anne CunninghamIt's a perfect little thing. Such a variety of approaches ... A little gem of a book
* John Toal, BBC Radio UlsterA welcome annual literary addition.
* The Examiner
In the good seats: Essays on film is a collection featuring some of the most talented writers working today, setting their sights on what’s so alluring and moving about film and cinema. A childhood movie encountered on the big screen, a favourite celluloid instant, a resonating discovery, an awkward first date; the threadbare seats, the click and whirr of the projector, the sense of scale expanding.
Each essayist in this book unearths those particularly breathless and unforgettable moments when their lives were touched by film. Like a projection of light beaming across a darkened hall, In the good seats, pulls us closer to those flickers of magic that film and cinema usher forth.
With contributions by Darran Anderson, Maggie Armstrong, Dodie Bellamy, Susannah Dickey, Maria Fusco, Francis Halsall, Daisy Lafarge, Michael Magee, Ian Maleney, Toye Oladinni, K Patrick, Devika Ponnambalam, Ali Smith, and Cathy Sweeney.
Publication date: 1 March 2025
Publicity: Peter O’Connell, peter@peteroconnellmedia.com
EXTS: 11 × 17.5 cm, 187 pp., 4 b/w ills., softcover
ISBN: 978-1-9161509-6-6
Design: Daly & Lyon
RRP: €15 / £13
This book is a little treasure – an orgy of enthusiasms from some of the liveliest minds and the sharpest pens around.
* Rob Doyle, author of ThresholdThe 14 pieces remind you how acutely linked cinema is to sentimentality and those tenuous formative years as we bottle into adulthood … Lots of registers and approaches, but what unites them is all that is versitile, hardworking, and always readily digestible essay format. We look forward to a fourth volume, whatever flavour it takes.
* Hilary White, Irish IndependentWhat is consistent here is the quality of the writing, as well as the various strolls down the rabbit-holes all over memory lane. A little book with a big sweep; it’s a good one for the movie buffs.
* Anne CunninghamIt's a perfect little thing. Such a variety of approaches ... A little gem of a book
* John Toal, BBC Radio UlsterA welcome annual literary addition.
* The Examiner