Hear writer Colm Tóibín talk about his most up-to-date novel, Lengthy Island — and extra — with WBEZ’s Morning Version host Mary Dixon at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 15 at First United Methodist Church, 516 Church St. Doorways open at 6 p.m.
Maybe essentially the most widely-read author in up to date Irish literature, Tóibín is the writer of 11 novels and a variety of different works of non-fiction. He’s been thrice short-listed for the Booker Prize.
Mary Dixon, the host of Morning Version on 91.5, WBEZ-FM for 5 years, has additionally hosted a morning present on 93.1, WXRT-FM and has reported for WGN-TV and CNN. Enjoyable details: A 20-year resident, Dixon lives in Evanston together with her household. Her husband is author and podcaster Mark Caro.
Lengthy Island has been hailed as a sequel to Tóibín’s earlier novel, Brooklyn, which the New York Instances characterised as “close to excellent.” However in an interview accessible on YouTube, Tóibín admits that “I emphatically didn’t wish to write a sequel to Brooklyn,” insisting that he was “by no means going to do it.” Then, as he tells it, “Someday I used to be strolling on the road and I received the primary picture, which was actually the primary three pages of the e-book.”
The e-book unfolded from there, with Scribner and Son publishing the complete 294 pages in 2024.
The story takes place 25 years after Brooklyn, with the identical characters, although older, and a few new ones, in addition to new waters for everybody to navigate — together with readers. Lengthy Island was an Oprah’s Ebook Membership choose, a New York Instances bestseller and named a finest e-book of the 12 months by Time Journal.
“I really like Tóibín’s well-rounded characters. I really feel like they might be kinfolk,” Dixon instructed the RoundTable. She’s planning to speak with Tóibín about his perspective “on the U.S.’s standing on the planet and his expertise educating at Columbia, which can have some parallels with Northwestern today.”
A revered tutorial, Tóibín served because the chancellor of the College of Liverpool from 2017 to 2022 and is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia College in Manhattan.
The occasion is sponsored by Bookends & Beginnings, 1620 Orrington Ave. You’ll be able to register to attend at its web site. Tickets are $30 and embody the brand new paperback version of Lengthy Island.
