Michael Coffey – The Samuel Beckett Society

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024

Beckett’s Children: A Literary Memoir by Michael Coffey

Fresh from OR Books comes Beckett’s Children: A Literary Memoir from the pen of long-standing Beckettian Michael Coffey. Described as ‘a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father-son dialogue, and literary investigation’ the book ‘probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe’ searching for traces of various connections, including the their…

December 28, 2017

Lisa Dwan and Walter Asmus on Beckett’s Theatre

In a 2016 interview for BOMB Magazine, Lisa Dwan and Walter Asmus talk to Michael Coffey about their collaboration on Beckett’s late plays

December 19, 2017December 19, 2017

Michael Coffey on his book, Samuel Beckett Is Closed

“[A]ny attempt to get a handle on Beckett takes you to into interesting territory—to classical music, Irish history, Continental philosophy, World War II, abstract painting, the French language. For a quiet man his interests were voracious. Beckett scholarship has ranged far beyond those seminal early essays by Maurice Blanchot and Theodor Adorno and the studies by Ruby Cohn and Lawrence Harvey. Now, with James Knowlson’s authorized biography, the recently released four volumes of letters, and the digital manuscript project going on in Antwerp, the study of his works is vibrant all around the world.”