Colm Tóibín

Aysha Bey will lead a discussion of House of Names by Colm Toibin.

Join the Department of English for monthly Booktalk meetings 6-7 p.m. the first Tuesday of each month in Humanities Building Room 237. The meetings are open to the Birmingham community; all are welcome.

Books are selected by English faculty and instructors, who also lead the discussions.

Discounted copies of all titles will be available at Little Professor Books in Homewood. Just mention UAB Booktalk when purchasing.

For more information, email Cassandra Ellis, cellis@uab.edu. (Muscogulus)… (mere)

Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award winner Colm Tóibín sit down with the CBC’s Eleanor Wachtel for a riveting discussion about their most recent works.

Friday, October 24, 2014 - 7:30 PM
Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay West, Toronto M5J 2G8

Cost: $25/$20 supporters, FREE students & youth 25 and under (Jenni_Canuck)… (mere)

Some luck Jane Smiley Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley is the author of more than a dozen “smart, irreverent, and wickedly tender” (The Boston Globe) novels, including Ten Days in the Hills, Moo, and A Thousand Acres. She is also the author of a short story collection, five books of nonfiction, and five young adult novels. Smiley’s new novel follows the fortunes of an Iowa farm family over three transformative decades. Nora Webster Colm Tóibín Colm Tóibín is the ”heartfelt, powerful” (Wall Street Journal) author of an impressive list of novels, short stories, essays, plays, poetry, and criticism. His work depicts themes of Irish society, living abroad, and homosexual identity. His novels The Master (2004) and The Testament of Mary (2013) were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2011 Toibin received an Irish PEN Award. His new novel is a character study of a young Irish widow struggling to support her children. Clever girl Tessa Hadley The “irresistibly charming” (Vogue) Tessa Hadley is the author of four acclaimed novels, including Accidents in the Home, which was long-listed for the Guardian First Book Award; and The London Train, a New York Times Notable Book. Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker. The author of two previous short story collections, Hadley follows narrator Stella from early childhood to the settled comfort of middle age in the “rich, absorbing” novel (Vanity Fair) Clever girl. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

Location: Street: Free Library of Philadelphia Additional: 1901 Vine Street City: Philadelphia, Province: Pennsylvania Postal Code: 19103-5207 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)

The master by Colm Tóibín Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at 5:30pm

This distinguished Irish novelist boldly offers a fictional depiction of the last two decades of the life of the great god of American letters, Henry James. Toibin gives him ordinary human qualities, such as fear and loneliness and longing, in a shaping and shading process that has not been an easy task, even in the most thoughtful, scrupulously researched biography. Buy the book

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The Literary Sojourn Author Study is a series of book discussion programs designed to enhance the experience of reading for this year's Literary Sojourn. Participants read and discuss works from each of the featured authors prior to the live event.

Bud Werner Memorial Library's Michelle Dover facilitates the free discussions and the study is limited to 12 participants per meeting. For more information about the Literary Sojourn Author Study, please contact Michelle at mdover@steamboatlibrary.org or (970) 879-0240, ext. 307.

Location: Street: Bud Werner Library City: Steamboat Springs, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 80487 Country: United States (tilføjet fra IndieBound)… (mere)