Music Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious. Kevin Barry 17
Soul I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning. I hear the same groan now,... Kevin Barry 11
Car In the early nineties, I was a cub reporter on a city newspaper in Limerick, and assigned to the courthouse there. One day, an old detective... Kevin Barry 21