My old mucker, writer, actor and comedian Karl MacDermott has just told me he’s launching his new book “The Creative Lower Being” (published by Killynon House Books) next week in Dublin. Ardal O’Hanlon is due to give what I do not doubt will be a stirring oratory at the launch.

Karl is himself a being, and this is what he says about his new tome:

“The Creative Lower Being” tells the story of one Manus Mannion. Having long accepted his lack of synchronisation with humanity, Manus has desperately tried over the years to make his mark through various artistic ventures. He has been a stage actor, comedian and part- time blues singer. With little success. At present he is working as a film screenwriter and has a project languishing in ‘development hell’.

“The Creative Lower Being” encompasses Manus’ curmudgeonly comic diary- entries from his thirty-ninth to his fortieth birthday. Part Woody Allen, part Proust, part Macra na Feirme- the diary becomes a surreal smorgasbord of pithy comments on his ongoing tribulations in the creative sphere, rants at his life in Dublin, analysis of domestic glitches with Kirsten, his long suffering girlfriend from Liechtenstein, and bittersweet yet sometimes bizarre memories of his childhood and adolescence in Galway.

Of part Cherokee descent, Karl MacDermott was born in Galway. He has written for television and radio in Ireland and the He is currently writer-in-residence at his home in Dublin.

Unfortunately I can’t find a photo of Karl, but I did unearth a picture of one of his Cherokee antecedents, so maybe he looks a bit like this:

Posted: August 27th, 2007 under Friends.
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