Colm Tóibín's Blog, page 4

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

From Colm Tóibín, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men - William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce - and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their complicated sons.

Release Date: 
31-10-2018

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AN EVENING WITH COLM TÓIBÍN AND CARYS DAVIES

Date: 
Wed, 25/04/2018 - 19:30






Venue: 
MURMRR BALLROOM
17 EASTERN PKWY
BROOKLYN, NY, 11238
HTTP://WWW.MURMRR.COM/

Beloved author of the novel Brooklyn and many others, Colm Tóibín will read from his latest novel, House of Names, to celebrate its paperback release. He's joined by and will be interviewed by Carys Davies, winner of the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, on the release of her first novel, West. Both authors will be available to sign books afterward.

Link: 
https://www.murmrr.com/event/1666993-evening-colm-toibin-carys-brooklyn/

Pale Sister (Staged Reading) at the PEN America World Voices Festival

Date: 
Sun, 22/04/2018 - 18:30 - 20:00






Venue: 
PULITZER HALL, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 2950 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, NY

Written by Colm Tóibín for the actress Lisa Dwan, Pale Sister is a dramatisation of the voice of Ismene, sister of Antigone, who recounts Antigone’s defiance of the King as pressures mount on Ismene to act to vindicate her sister, or even follow her example.

Link: 
https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/pale-sister-staged-reading/

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Reflections on Violence at the PEN America World Voices Festival

Date: 
Sat, 21/04/2018 - 14:30 - 16:00






Venue: 
DIXON PLACE, 161A CHRYSTIE STREET, NEW YORK, NY

Colm Toibin’s latest novel House of Names tells the story of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Orestes, Electra and Iphigenia but Toibin drew on contemporary proponents of extreme violence — the Boston marathon bomber, ISIS, and a shocking ambush of Irish Protestants during the Troubles — to reach his understanding of how to write about these Ancient Greek murderers.

Link: 
https://worldvoices.pen.org/session/reflections-on-violence/

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Colin Barrett & Colm Tóibín in Conversation at Columbia University

Date: 
Fri, 30/03/2018 - 17:00






Venue: 
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University in New York City

Colin Barrett is the author of Young Skins, a debut collection of stories, which won the Guardian First Book Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Barrett will read from some of his work and converse with Colm Tóibín, whose own highly acclaimed fiction includes The Master (2004), Brooklyn (2009), Nora Webster (2014) and, most recently, House of Names (2017). Award-winning author Sam Lipsyte, Chair of The Writing Program, will introduce.

Link: 
http://heymancenter.org/events/colin-barrett-colm-toibin-in-conversation/

House of Names - US paperback

* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year

* Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, St. Louis Dispatch

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children—“brilliant…gripping…high drama…made tangible and graphic in Tóibín’s lush prose” (Booklist, starred review).

Release Date: 
US: March 6th, 2018

House of Names

* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year

* Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, St. Louis Dispatch

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children—“brilliant…gripping…high drama…made tangible and graphic in Tóibín’s lush prose” (Booklist, starred review).

Release Date: 
US: March 6th, 2018

Woodstock Bookfest Keynote: An Evening with Colm Tóibín

Date: 
Sat, 24/03/2018 - 20:00






Venue: 
Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY

Woodstock Bookfest presents a world premiere, featuring Irish writer Colm Toíbín, reading the words of author John Hersey.

Link: 
https://woodstockbookfest.com/keynote-colm-toibin/

Colm Tóibín on House of Names at The Music Hall

Date: 
Thu, 22/03/2018 - 19:00






Venue: 
The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children - “brilliant…gripping…high drama…made tangible and graphic in Tóibín’s lush prose” (Booklist, starred review). Don’t miss hearing from one of this generation’s most remarkable authors, back by popular demand in the Loft with this just-released paperback edition of HOUSE OF NAMES.

Link: 
http://www.themusichall.org/calendar/event/colm_toibin1

Colm Tóibín on House of Names at Symphony Space

Date: 
Wed, 28/03/2018 - 19:30






Venue: 
Symphony Space in New York, NY

Award-winning, bestselling author Colm Tóibín returns to the Thalia Book Club for a discussion on his latest novel with Elissa Schappell (Blueprints for Building Better Girls). With a performance from the novel by Amy Ryan (Birdman).

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