The Irish author of ‘Nora Webster’ and ‘The Master,’ Colm Tóibín, wins the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize.
Erin’s Must-Brings for Frankfurt Sanity
By Erin L. Cox I’m leaving for The Frankfurt Book Fair on Saturday. With my multiple hats on (literary agent, Biz Dev/writer for PP, and publicist), I am juggling a few things on site and at home while I’m there. Because I’ll be busier than a one-armed paper hanger, it is important for this week to be very organized to …
Coverage of the Aukland Writers & Readers Festival
By Edward Nawotka Graham Beattie, former Managing Director/Publisher of Penguin Books NZ and Scholastic NZ offers a very thorough overview of the Auckland Readers & Writers Festival, which took place last weekend. Included in his coverage are events with Lee Childs, Lionel Shriver, David Levithan, Marti Friedlander, Colm Toibin and a panel discussion about US publishing with Levithan and Granta …
Review: Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
By Gwendolyn Dawson In Colm Toibin’s latest novel, Brooklyn, young Eilis Lacey leaves the struggling economy of her small hometown in southeast Ireland to forge a new life in Brooklyn, New York. In unadorned prose, Toibin describes the daily struggles and triumphs of Eilis’s life in the unfamiliar, and often inhospitable, urban environment of her new home. In many ways, …