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Riverrun, Riverrun

This essay was originally written for the 2015 White Light Festival at Lincoln Center in New York.

In 1963 the Brooklyn-born physicist, Murray Gellman, postulated a trinity of elemental particles that were the building blocks of the world. He called them “quarks” after a line in James Joyce’s  Finnegan’s Wake.

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A Selection of Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Magazine publications include the New Yorker, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Story Magazine, New York Times Magazine (“The Real Life of Anna V,” Feb 2002), and several other publications.

Editorial and feature pieces written for the New York Times, Irish Times, London Guardian, Baltimore Sun, Irish Independent, Sunday Tribune, Figaro, Die Zeit, La Republicca, La Monde, Lire.

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Extended Author’s Note & Victim Impact Statement: Thirteen Ways of Looking

Punched and knocked unconscious after trying to help a woman who had also been assaulted along a busy city street.

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“McCann joins ranks of the great” (Irish Times)

For Colum McCann, the Dublin-born, New York-based writer whose ‘ Let the Great World Spin’ won the US National Book Award on Wednesday night, the prestigious accolade helped make up for Ireland’s defeat to France – just about, he tells FIONA McCANN

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