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JOYCE CAROL Oates, one of the most distinguished American novelists of the last 50 years will be reading at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature on Saturday April 24.

There was plenty of madness, effects, and stars galore but there just wasn’t enough ‘muchness’ in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, a film which probably hit its head on the way down the rabbit hole.

Whether it’s the cold weather, the economic crisis, the hordes of Christmas shoppers or the short days and long evenings, the idea of hibernation takes on a particular appeal at this time of year. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to pull the duvet over your head and sleep through the Christmas frenzy, the New Year hysteria and the February gloom, and wake up when spring is on the point of reappearing? I suppose you’d regret missing out on all the fun bits, but in weaker moments it’s a very tempting thought all the same.

THROUGHOUT TODAY and this weekend the Galway Film Fleadh will be in full swing, screening feature films, premieres, documentaries, shorts, and animation, in this, its 21st year.

SLIGO’S BLUE Raincoat Theatre Company come to the Town Hall from February 4 to 6 with A new staging of Flann O’Brien’s ebullient comic classic, At Swim Two Birds.