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Colum McCann Colum McCann ( Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Transatlantic) Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty languages. He has been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was the inaugural winner of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of Esquire’s “Best and Brightest,” and his short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing Program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children. (added from Random House)… (more)Colum McCann Colum McCann ( Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Transatlantic) Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty languages. He has been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was the inaugural winner of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of Esquire’s “Best and Brightest,” and his short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing Program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children. (added from Random House)… (more)Colum McCann Colum McCann ( Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Transatlantic) Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty languages. He has been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was the inaugural winner of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of Esquire’s “Best and Brightest,” and his short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing Program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children. (added from Random House)… (more)Colum McCann Colum McCann ( Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Transatlantic) Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty languages. He has been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was the inaugural winner of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of Esquire’s “Best and Brightest,” and his short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing Program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children. (added from Random House)… (more)Colum McCann Colum McCann ( Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Transatlantic) Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty languages. He has been a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was the inaugural winner of the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of Esquire’s “Best and Brightest,” and his short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing Program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children. (added from Random House)… (more)Colum McCann has 1 media appearance. Colum McCann has 12 past events. (show)  Greenlight Fiction Book Group Tuesday, March 19, 7:30 PM Greenlight Fiction Book Group discusses This Side of BrightnessLed by Greenlight general manager Alexis, this book group discusses paperback fiction on the third Thursday of each month. For the March discussion, the group is reading This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann. At the turn of the century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the sandhogs—black, white, Irish, Italian—dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Above ground, though, the men keep their distance until a spectacular accident welds a bond between Walker and his fellow sandhogs that will both bless and curse three generations. All book group picks are 15% for the month preceding the discussion!
Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Book Reading Hester Kaplan and Taylor M. Polites, The Tell and The Rebel Wife “ Hester Kaplan brings such fresh language and uncanny insight to whatever her keen eye lands upon, it’s as if she creates it anew. Everything, everyone, every inflection in The Tell is charged with precision, feeling, and consequence.” Leah Hager Cohen, author of The grief of others"This is a wonderful first novel—passionate and brave. It removes the skin of an era, and questions so many of the tropes that hover around 19th century southern American literature. It was Faulkner who, in the 20th century, talked about the voice of fiction being inexhaustible. Taylor Polites has extended our narrative reach into yet another time. A fascinating, genre-subverting historical novel. "
Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin
Hester Kaplan is the author of The Edge of Marriage, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Kinship Theory, a novel. Her short stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories series. She teaches in Lesley University's MFA Program in Creative Writing and lives in Rhode Island.
Taylor M. Polites is a novelist living in Providence, Rhode Island with his small Chihuahua, Clovis. Polites’ first novel, The Rebel Wife, was published in February 2012 by Simon & Schuster. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University. In 2009, he was awarded the Norris Church Mailer Fellowship from Wilkes University. The Rebel Wife was one of O Magazine's top ten picks for February 2012, an Okra Pick from the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, and one of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's best Southern books of 2012.
Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Common Good Book Club -- Let The Great World Spin Common Good Book Club -- Let The Great World Spin Author Visit-Colum McCann Colum McCann on tour for Let the Great World Spin. Join us for a wonderful evening with award winning author Colum McCann on Tuesday, February 2 at 7pm in the Oak Room at Fairfield University. This event is co-sponsored by The Fairfield Public Library and Fairfield University. Author McCann has won many international writing awards for his fiction and short stories. His latest book, "Let the Great World Spin," won the 2009 National Book Award. The story is about Philippe Petit's high-wire walk between the twin towers which took place in 1974 and the lives of those who witnessed this spectacle. McCann was born in Ireland and currently lives in New York. He teaches writing at Hunter College. (suballa)… (more) Colum McCann en dédicace Colum McCann signs Et que le vaste monde poursuive sa course folle. Dédicace de Colum McCann à l'occasion de la sortie de son dernier ouvrage "Et que le vaste monde poursuive sa course folle"(Belfond). Dans le New York des années soixante-dix, un roman polyphonique aux douloureuses résonances contemporaines. Rencontres fortuites, amitiés improbables, amours impossibles… la ronde de personnages liés par la grâce, la magie, le talent de Colum McCann. (Patangel)… (more)
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