Molly McArdle - Ghostwriter

• Covering books for Brooklyn Magazine for both print and the web
• Series, “Diversity in Publishing,” was featured in The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Bustle, The Toast, among dozens of other blogs; work has also been highlighted in Today in Tabs, This.cm’s “Today’s 5”, and Longreads

My reporting, essays, and criticism have been published by The Believer, The Los Angeles Review of Books, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Bitch Magazine, Pacific Standard, Audubon Magazine, The Oyster Review, Fusion, Library Journal, PANK, Midnight Breakfast, and Barnstorm Journal. I also work forthcoming in Next City and Oxford American.

My writing has been highlighted by The Atlantic, Longreads, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, School Library Journal, Bustle, The Toast, Today in Tabs, This.cm’s “Today’s 5”, among others.

Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney's Poetics

Michael Cavanagh

Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaney's poetics--his concept of what poetry should be and what its uses are--and relating them to his practice as a poet. The first full-length study of Heaney's poetics,... read more

Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaney's poetics--his concept of what poetry should be and what its uses are--and relating them to his practice as a poet. The first full-length study of Heaney's poetics,... read more