About this episode

Richard Byrne discusses his new book Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me and his work in journalism and dramatism.

Richard Byrne is a dramatist and journalist. He was the editor of The Wilson Quarterly from 2019 to 2021. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, Time, BookForum and Zona Motel. His music criticism includes liner notes for releases by R.E.M. and Uncle Tupelo. His work as a dramatist includes two musicals: Nero/Pseudo (written with Jon Langford and Jim Elkington) and Congressman Davy (with Dean Schlabowske). His play, Hotel Mayflower, was published in a bilingual edition (English/German) by Moloko Print. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2024 Pandora Machine film, The Drowned Girl. Byrne gained notoriety recently with author Jarett Kobek for his role in recovering the plaintext for the long-unsolved K4 strand of the celebrated Kryptos cipher. On this episode of Little Atoms he talks to Neil Denny about his new book Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me . Content note: Discussion of suicide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Neil Denny

Guest: Richard Byrne

Topics covered

• dramatist
• journalism
• music criticism
• Kryptos cipher
• suicide
• new book

Keywords

• Richard Byrne
• Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me
• Kryptos cipher
• dramatist
• journalism
• music criticism
• suicide

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Wilson Quarterly, The New Republic, The Nation, The Guardian, Time, BookForum, Zona Motel

Books & works: Beauty Doesn’t Reach Me, Nero/Pseudo, Congressman Davy, Hotel Mayflower, The Drowned Girl

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