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Oran Ryan is a writer living in Ireland. He has written novels: The Death of Finn (Seven Towers, 2006) Ten Short Novels by Arthur Kruger (Seven Towers 2007), and One Inch Punch (Seven Towers, 2012). He has written plays for the stage and radio: Don Quixote has Been Promoted (2009, Ranelagh Arts Festival) and Preliminary Design For a Universe Circling Spacecraft (KRPN, San Francisco, California 2010) He has written and published short stories, poetry and literary critical articles, particularly on William Burroughs, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and David Foster Wallace, as well as editing and contributing to a recent critical volume on Doris Lessing called Fragmented Societies: Feminism, Love and Identity in the Novels of Doris Lessing. He lectures on James Joyce, particularly Finnegans Wake.