In this episode of The Dublin Review Podcast, Aingeala Flannery talks to Mark O'Connell about an essay he wrote called Self Portrait in Five Fears, which appeared in The Dublin Review NUMBER 52 | AUTUMN 2013. Mark O'Connell is a writer from Kilkenny. His non-fiction debut To Be A Machine won the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2019. His second book Notes From An Apocalypse was published by Granta in 2020. He has been contributing to The Dublin Review since 2012.