My name is Rhys Tranter, and I am a writer and photographer based in Cardiff, Wales, UK. I am the author of Beckett’s Late Stage: Trauma, Language, and Subjectivity (2018). I’ve published essays, reviews, and interviews in the Times Literary Supplement, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Spectator (online), The Quarterly Conversation, 3:AM Magazine, Lincoln Center’s The Score, and a number of books and periodicals. I have been invited to speak at the University of Oxford, the University of St Andrews, and Trinity College Dublin. From 2012 to 2020, I was on the Board of the Samuel Beckett Society and co-edited its official newsletter, The Beckett Circle. (See CV)

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About the Site

RhysTranter.com is a blog offering commentary and analysis across literature, philosophy, and the arts. In 2016, the site was selected to become part of the British Library’s permanent UK Web Archive.

RhysTranter.com has been linked to by a number of prominent cultural figures and organizations, including The New York Times, Wired Magazine, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood, Hari Kunzru, Kyle MacLachlan, Bruce Sterling, David Lynch Foundation, Grove Atlantic, Vintage Books, Edinburgh Book Festival, Open Culture, Brain Pickings, The Goldsmiths Prize, Cambridge University Press, The New York Review of Books, City Lights Bookstore, Music & Literature, and Random House.

RhysTranter.com has also been featured as an Editor’s Pick on WordPress Discover. The selected piece was an interview with Carolyn Cocca for her book, Superwomen: Gender, Power, and Representation (Bloomsbury, 2016). Carolyn Cocca discussed how women superheroes are changing the we way think about contemporary femininity. You can find out more about the selection here.

A Piece of Monologue

In 2007, I started A Piece of Monologue, a website that won 3:AM Magazine Blog of the Year 2009. The site was referenced or linked to by a number of major cultural outlets, including The New Yorker, The Guardian, Bookforum, Le Monde, The Paris Review, 3:AM Magazine, Open Culture, The Quietus, Flavorwire, Beckett International Foundation, The American Reader, Slate, Stanford University, The Wire, Max’s Kansas City, The Verge,  The Spectator, BBC Ireland, and The Criterion Collection. RhysTranter.com is the new home of A Piece of Monologue.

Copyright

This website quotes from books, journals and newspapers with ‘fair use’ in mind, and always references authors and sources. If you are an author, publisher, artist, or agent representing material reproduced on this website, and you do not wish for it to be used, please let me know and I shall remove all material and associated links. Contact.

Disclaimer

Books, magazines and journals reviewed on this website may have been received as complimentary copies from publishers or distributors. Unsolicited manuscripts may not be returned.