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Colum McCann Wants Language To Operate Like Music On A Page
Critics have called Colum McCann’s novel, Let The Great World Spin, the best post-9/11 novel yet — though most of the story takes place before September 11. The book starts with a brief but powerful...
View ArticleColum McCann Picks Three; Eleanor Friedberger's 'Personal Record'
In this episode: The award winning Irish novelist, Colum McCann, whose new book is called TransAtlantic, joins us to discuss some of his favorite music in a Pick Three.Plus: Eleanor Friedberger —...
View ArticleLuxuriating in Language
I had the good fortune to hear the outstanding Irish writers John Banville and Colum McCann a few days ago, when they did a reading together at New York's 92nd Street Y. Banville won the Man Booker...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Vantage Points
Unique points of view in an award-winning novel and a serio-comic short story prompted us to call this program VANTAGE POINTS. We were struck by the unusual perspectives — spatial and emotional —...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Holding Fast
Failing a moral test, and the cost of love and loss in stories by American and Irish contemporary writers.Holding fast… This program features two powerful stories about moral tests and holding fast to...
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Selected Shorts: Remembering Isaiah Sheffer
SELECTED SHORTS celebrates its late host and creator Isaiah Sheffer in this special program hosted by Colum McCann. Isaiah Sheffer presided over SELECTED SHORTS for nearly thirty years, curating a wide...
View ArticleGuest Picks: Colum McCann
Writer Colum McCann was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about his novel, TransAtlantic. He also told us what he's been reading lately, and what his favorite comfort food is.What have you...
View ArticleColum McCann's TransAtlantic
Colum McCann discusses his new novel, TransAtlantic. It tells three parallel stories of ocean crossings—set in Newfoundland in 1919, Dublin in the 1840s, in New York in 1998. The novel tells the...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Isaiah Sheffer Remembered
SELECTED SHORTS’ late host and creator Isaiah Sheffer died last November, and we’re marking the occasion with a repeat of this special program celebrating his work. It’s hosted by writer Colum...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: How to be a Man
Guest host Colum McCann curates a show with many takes on masculinity.Readings are drawn from the anthology, The Book of Men, created with Esquire magazine and the storytelling collective Narrative 4....
View ArticleThis Guy is Having a Really Bad Day
This story by Ian McEwan is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “How to Be a Man,” hosted by Colum McCann and featuring stories from the anthology The Book of Men. The reader is Rebecca Naomi...
View ArticleA Touching Father-Son Story
This story by Roddy Doyle is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “How to Be a Man,” hosted by Colum McCann and featuring stories from the anthology The Book of Men. The reader is Gabriel Byrne.Guest...
View ArticleLady Liberty’s Secrets Revealed by Ben Fountain
This story by Ben Fountain is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “How to Be a Man,” hosted by Colum McCann and featuring stories from the anthology The Book of Men. The reader is Stockard...
View ArticleIt Takes Two to ????
This story by Vanessa Manko is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “How to Be a Man,” hosted by Colum McCann and featuring stories from the anthology The Book of Men. The reader is Gabriel Byrne.Guest...
View ArticleThe Persistence of Memory: James Joyce's "The Dead" Part 2
Cynthia Nixon presents the second of two programs devoted to a reading of James Joyce’s memorable story, “The Dead.”“The Dead” takes place at a New Year’s dinner-dance in Dublin in 1904. It is filled...
View ArticleJames Joyce's "The Dead" Part 2: The Persistence of Memory, Continued
This reading by Colum McCann of James Joyce’s “The Dead” is part of the SELECTED SHORTS program “The Persistence of Memory: James Joyce’s “The Dead” Part 2, hosted by Cynthia Nixon.
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Author Colum McCann recommends what to read and listen to this weekend
Colum McCann. Photo by Rich GilliganHere at the NewsHour Arts desk, we regularly go to figures in the arts to ask for their recommendations on what we should be reading, listening to, or watching this...
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Giving advice to young writers, Colum McCann wants to see the fire in their...
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