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Twist” is the electrifying new novel from Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award for “Let the Great World Spin.” ...
How lost are we without our devices? Or putting it more simply, as novelist Colum McCann might: just how isolated are we? His ...
The star-studded announcement for Charleston Literary Festival 2025 features literary giants Joyce Carol Oates, Colum McCann, ...
Leonard was a Seabee during World War II, an ad man, a Western novelist and then a stylish and popular mystery writer and movie scripter. Kushins retraces Leonard's steps in this admiring biography.
Previous Irish winners include the highly acclaimed Colum McCann, who won the award in 2011 for Let the Great World Spin. Reflecting on his win and the prize money of €100,000 he said: "It's a ...
McCann is best known for sweeping social novels held together by an organizing figure. Most famously, there’s “Let the Great World Spin,” from 2009, which won a National Book Award.Bounding ...
That city is the setting for his international bestseller Let the Great World Spin, in which Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk between the Twin Towers in 1974 plays a key role.
In the National Book Award winning “Let the Great World Spin,” Colum McCann writes of a character named Corrigan who wants “a fully believable God, ...
Colum McCann is sitting in the study of his New York apartment, looking very relaxed, ... notably the bestsellers Apeirogon and Let the Great World Spin. Apropos of nothing, ...
In 2017, Flack taught an Irish literature course at Marquette with a syllabus that included contemporary writer Colum McCann, whose novel "Let the Great World Spin" had won the 2009 National Book ...
Colum McCann's new novel, Twist, tracks a group at sea tasked with repairing the underwater cables through which we all communicate.Below, the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great ...
First up on April 22nd is Colum McCann, the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin. His newest book, Twist takes readers to the bottom of the ocean, ...