Colum McCann

Colum McCann appears in the following:

When Gun Owners and Gun-Violence Victims Come Together

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Lisa Miller and Colum McCann talk about their experiment in bringing 16 strangers—some who say guns saved their lives, others who lost their children to gun violence—together.

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Matthew Broderick and Colum McCann Celebrate W.B. Yeats at 150

Thursday, June 04, 2015

The Tony-winning actor and and National Book Award-winning novelist observe the 150th birthday of “Ireland’s national poet,” William Butler Yeats.

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Selected Shorts: Isaiah Sheffer Remembered

Friday, November 08, 2013

SELECTED SHORTS honors the memory of our creator and host of Isaiah Sheffer, who died on November 8, 2012., in a reprise of a special program hosted by Colum McCann.   For nearly...

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Colum McCann Picks Three; Eleanor Friedberger's 'Personal Record'

Thursday, June 06, 2013

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 — singer, songwriter, and one half of the band, Fiery Furnaces — returns with a new solo album, Personal Record. We hear some of it when she plays live in our studio. 

And: A sneak preview of our conversation with the Grammy Award-winning neo-soul singer and songwriter Erykah Badu

Colum McCann Wants Language To Operate Like Music On A Page

Thursday, June 06, 2013

Colum McCann, the author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, and an avid music fan, shares some of the music that moves him.

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Colum McCann's TransAtlantic

Monday, June 03, 2013

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 stories of iconic crossings connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in history.

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Guest Picks: Colum McCann

Monday, June 03, 2013

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.

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Guest Picks: Colum McCann

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Novelist Colum McCann shares some of his favorite picks with us.

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9/11 in Fiction

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Novelists Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland; Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin; and Julia Glass, author of The Whole World Over, discuss how they addressed 9/11 in their work, the challenges of writing about the attacks and their aftermath, and how 9/11 has influenced their writing, the stories they wanted to tell, and fiction as a whole over the last ten years.

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Let The Great World Spin

Friday, September 04, 2009

On an August morning in 1974 a mysterious tightrope walker suspended himself between the Twin Towers. That event has become the backdrop for Colum McCann's latest novel Let the Great World Spin.

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Spinning Between the Towers

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

On an August morning in 1974 a mysterious tightrope walker suspended himself between the Twin Towers. That event has become the backdrop for Colum McCann's latest novel Let the Great World Spin.

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