Ivor S. Irwin | The Sun Magazine

Ivor S. Irwin

Ivor Irwin teaches writing at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He is a fanatical supporter of Manchester United Football Club, the only thing he misses about his hometown in Great Britain.

— From January 2002
Fiction

Cómo Aguantamos

The thing Terry hates most about going back to England, even on vacations, is that it’s like coral: a living dead thing. There is sweet nothing to do. Football. Sky television. The cancer of the reminiscence.

January 2002
Fiction

Sonderkommando

“The Holocaust is boring, honey. I lost it with that last Louis Malle film. It’s as old as platform shoes. They trivialize it.” Carla isn’t Jewish. “You oppress yourself, honey.” I nodded.

May 1991
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