Colum Mccann

10 Contemporary Irish Authors You Need To Know

flavorwire.com | Kathleen Massara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clare Boylan, St. Patrick's Day, St Patricks Day, Irish Literature, John McGahern, Claire Keegan, Irish Lit, Contemporary Irish Authors, Irish Authors, Colum McCann, William Trevor, Books News

There are many ways we can celebrate St. Patrick’s Day: go on a bender, kiss everyone in sight, projectile vomit into some shrubbery, be the bastard...

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Colum McCann: American Literature and New York's Redemption (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, New York, National Book Award, Chris Lydon, Radio, Conversation, Colum McCann, Colin Channer, Reading, Brown University, Wellesley-College, Books News

Colum McCann wrote the New Yorkiest and, many feel, the best of 9.11 novels, Let the Great World Spin, and won the National Book Award for it.

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Norman Mailer's "Moonfire" Celebrated With New Coffeetable Book

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Alex Vadukul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moon Landing, Taschen Books, Norman Mailer, 1969, Lawrence Schiller, Colum McCann, New York News

Norman Mailer, a writer once known for his towering ego, enjoyed the release of an equally over-sized book last Friday. Fans of Mailer gathered in th...

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Tournament Of Books 2010 Begins

The Morning News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Let the Great World Spin, Morning News, Books, Miles From Nowhere, Tournament of Books, Book Tournament, Colum McCann, Books News

First, let me get some caveats out of the way. Since my co-editor Andrew and I are judging in the first round this year (in past years we've judged th...

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The New York Times' Best Books Of 2009

The New York Times | The New York Times Book Review | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Ackroyd, Barbara Kingsolver, Best Books, Lorrie Moore, Books, Literary Prizes, Harold Evans, Sag Harbor, Wolf Hall, Margaret Atwood, Frankenstein, Jay McInerney, Holiday News, Ishiguro, Jay, Booker Prize, Cheever, Colum McCann, National Book Awards, Columbine, Karen Armstrong, Bestsellers, Ayn Rand, Notable Books, Open, New York Times, Jonathan Lethem, Alice Munro, Andre Agassi, Books News

The Book Review has made these selections from books reviewed since Dec. 7, 2008, when we published our previous Notables list. It was not easy pickin...

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Literary Prize Winners Of 2009 (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Prizes, Best Books, Books, Slidepoll, Literary Prizes, Dave Eggers, Best Books of 2009, Booker Prize, Colum McCann, Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize, PEN/Faulkner, Neil Gaiman, National Book Award, Book Award, Hilary Mantel, Alice Munro, Bestsellers, Books News

There were some surprises this year, and a lot of women winning awards. In case you missed them, here are the moments we celebrated in literature duri...

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Amazon Announces Best Books Of 2009

Amazon.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amazon.com, Top 100 Books, Top 10 Books, Amazon Picks, 2009 Books, Books, Let the Great World Spin, Best Books, Amazon, Best Books of 2009, Colum McCann, Books News

Amy Hertz at Huffington Post: It's the battle of the "best of" lists, movies, television, and of course books. We've seen Publishers Weekly, now Amazo...

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: See Who Won (LIST)

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Claudette Colvin, Fiction, National Book Award Winners List, National Book Award Winners, Keith Waldrop, Winners, National Book Awards, Colum McCann, Bestsellers, Flannery O'Connor, TJ Stiles, Who Won, National Book Award, Non-Fiction, Philip Hoose, Slidepoll, Books News

The National Book Awards were announced last night at an event which also honored Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers. Check out the winners below, and vote on...

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Great Books of 2009: Time to Name Men

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marshall Jon Fisher, David Small, Pete Dexter, Chris Cleave, David Mazzucchelli, Matthew Goodman, Colm Toibin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Colum McCann, Books News

Publishing houses come out with so many great books every year that to list just five is way too hard. With that in mind, here is a list of the top five Y-chromosome penned books of 2009.

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Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, Kazuo Ishiguro And Others Share Their Writing Secrets

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anne Rice, John Wray, Writers, Junot Diaz, Books, Writing, Writing Strategies, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Writing Techniques, Nicholson Baker, Edwidge Danticat, Colum McCann, Laura Lippman, Authors, Kate Christensen, Richard Powers, Writer's Block, Orhan Pamuk, Writing Tips, Dan Chaon, Russell Banks, Hilary Mantel, Writing Secrets, Amitav Gosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Books News

Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...

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