Colm Toibin’s BROOKLYN: the Self-effaced Writer
In my last post I commented that one reason I liked Carol Anshaw’s Carry the One so much was that I felt the writer’s sensibility permeated the novel. There’s a unique personality behind the
READ MOREIn my last post I commented that one reason I liked Carol Anshaw’s Carry the One so much was that I felt the writer’s sensibility permeated the novel. There’s a unique personality behind the
READ MOREIn an essay called “What is Real is Imagined” in the July 15, 2012 The New York Times, Colm Tóibín describes being back in the remote place on the Coast of Ireland which his
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