Colm Toibin, the great Irish poet and novelist, joins us now. So let's not fritter away any more time before he reads a poem. Colm, could you please read "Prayer To St. Agnes"? COLM TOIBIN: (Reading) ...
Colm Toibin's new novel opens with a heartbreaker of a dilemma. His main character, Eilis Lacey, opens her front door to a stranger who accuses Eilis' husband of having an affair with his wife, an ...
Colm Tóibín has written a long list of short stories, essays, plays, and novels, including “Brooklyn,” which was recently adapted into a critically-acclaimed film. The Irish writer, a professor at ...
Voices, cadence, pacing: These 8 sublime audiobooks do everything right. By Lauren Christensen Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Now a suburban married mother, Eilis ...
Inprint presents novelist Colm Tóibín as part of the 2016-17 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series. Tóibín has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize. His eight novels include The ...
The award-winning Irish author talks about his latest novel, ‘House of Names,’ based on the Greek story of Clytemnestra, Agamemnon and their children Iphigenia, Electra and Orestes. In the interview ...