Wired for success
Scottish author and rap artist Darren McGarvey has just picked up the Orwell Prize for a raw memoir of his alcohol-fuelled twenties
Darren McGarvey was in Dublin once, but he doesn’t remember it.
Or, to be exact, McGarvey, 34, recalls being woken up in the bar of a hotel in Dublin – and that’s about the sum of it. That hazy experience was characteristic of much of McGarvey’s alcohol-fuelled mid-twenties. As he says himself, one of the great things about coming to Ireland next week to speak on Friday as part of the Festival of ...
