How to write a killer opening line. Why Google is not research. When to rip it up and start again. Whatever you do, just write! Lessons from acclaimed novelist and creative writing professor Colum McCann
A couple of years ago a 57-year-old in Hancock Michigan was searching through the attic of his family home, when he opened a box and a dusty copy of a book called “Prince of Egypt” fell out. He flicked to the back cover and discovered that it was a library book forty-seven years overdue. [...]
When Booker prize nominee Colm Tóibín was asked to write something for the Marlene Dumas exhibition catalogue he knew he wasn’t interested in examining her w...
Why does National Book Award winner Colum McCann write in a cupboard? Find out in this video where the Irish novelist shares funny anecdotes and discusses the exciting– and nerve-wracking – experience of embarking on a new book.
USA TODAY Irish novelist Colum McCann assaulted attempting to protect woman involved in ... Irish Independent Allison Hawke, McCann's wife, told media that he cannot comment as he is currently undergoing dental work.
Colum McCann reads "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats and discusses Yeats, Achebe, and interconnectivity at PEN's Tribute to Chinua Achebe. Read the transcript below.
Colum McCann, Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride, Deirdre Madden and Frank McGuinness have been shortlisted for this year’s Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, whose €15,000 prize makes it the most lucrative available solely to Irish authors.
The shortlist was announced by this year’s adjudicators, author David Park and Eileen Battersby, Literary Correspondent of The Irish Times. More than 50 novels were submitted for the award.
Colum McCann, whose latest novel is Apeirogon, in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. Apeirogon is the story of two men, Rami Elhanan, an Israeli, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, best of friends, who have been traveling the world attempting to bring about peace in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Apeirogon is only tangentially a novel. These are real people and this reads more like augmented non-fiction.
I. Don't Be a Dick Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. –Henry James Hey
Colum McCann's latest book, Thirteen Ways of Looking, takes on parenthood, loss and just how arbitrary life can be. McCann says talking about traumatic experiences can be "a fantastic catharsis."
As part of the Visiting Writers Series, Lenoir-Rhyne University will welcome award winning author Colum McCann on Thursday, November 13 at 7:00 p.m. in P.E. Monroe Auditorium.
Rob Neufeld on Colum McCann's excellent new novel Asheville Citizen-Times McCann, author of the National Book Award-winning novel, “Let the Great World Spin,” and six previous novels, spans 166 years of Irish and American history in his new work,...
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