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Excerpt from Colum’s second newsletter, January 2020: Of course there are no real beginnings—just as there are no actual endings. Most of my days are taken up with getting ready for the release of my new novel, Apeirogon, teaching at Hunter College (though they have generously given me this semester off), and working with my global…
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Excerpt from Colum’s first newsletter, December 2019: “The good folks at Random House asked me to do an occasional newsletter in the run-up to my new novel, Apeirogon (coming Feb 25, 2020), a glimpse behind the curtain, a step behind the pages, to give a little glance into my world. It strikes me that I’ve…
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This is the first in a series of short videos where Colum McCann talks about his new novel, Apeirogon. “A work of incredible magnitude . . . McCann finds the emotional accuracy, the sensitivity, and the beauty to tell the heartbreaking reality of life in Israel-Palestine, while allowing readers a glimmer of necessary hope. Apeirogon is greater…
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More great work directed by Giovanni Villari inspired by “Let the Great World Spin”
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More video work from Giovanni Villari, inspired by “Let the Great World Spin”
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Check out the great work directed by Giovanni Villari on YouTube – which was inspired by “Let the Great World Spin”
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Aoibhinn meets writer Colum Mc Cann and musician Pól Ó Braonáin who have collaborated on a song called Transatlantic, based on Colum’s novel of the same name and featured on Clannad’s new album Nadur. Listen >
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The good folks at Random House asked me to do an occasional newsletter in the run-up to my new novel, APEIROGON, a glimpse behind the curtain, a step behind the pages, to give a little glance into my world.
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“Every significant novel is an act of reckless originality. Colum McCann’s Apeirogon is nothing like any book you’ve ever read. Think of reading David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, or George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo for the first time. Think of discovering an entirely unprecedented, and profoundly true, narrative form. Think about feeling that the very idea of the novel, of what it can be and what it’s capable of containing, has been expanded, forever.”—Michael Cunningham, New York Times bestselling author of The Snow Queen
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