Colm Tóibín

And novelist and laureate for Irish Fiction, Colm Tóibín discussed the album that inspired him.. Blue by Joni Mitchell.

The author of 10 novels, Colm Tóibín's collection of essays A Guest at the Feast begins by taking us back to his childhood. Starting with growing up in Enniscorthy, County Wexford he also tracks the changes in Ireland, its church and state and, intertwined, his own personal life.

Writer Colm Tóibín joins Eamon to talk about his new book of essays, A Guest at the Feast, published by Simon and Schuster and available now.Recorded on 7th November 2022. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-stand-with-eamon-dunphy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Laureate for Irish Fiction, Colm Tóibín spoke to Matt about his latest book 'A Guest at the Feast', which is a collection of essays about his own life. Catch the full chat by pressing the 'Play' button on this page.

Chris Power talks to Colm Tóibín about his essays on illness, religion and literature

What did James Joyce’s Ulysses do to literature, and how has literature reacted since? What is its role in the contemporary literary landscape? In celebration of the book’s centennial and in anticipation of Bloomsday, novelist and scholar Colm Tóibín spoke to Alice McCrum on May 27, 2022 at the American Library in Paris with a live audience both in person and on Zoom about the history, publication, and legacy of the book to which, in the words of T.S. Eliot, “we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.”Colm Tóibín is a novelist, essayist, and critic. He is the author of many works, including The Blackwater Lightship (1996), shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Master (2004), awarded the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2004 Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year, and Brooklyn (2009), awarded the Costa Novel Award. Tóibín received the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 and the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2021.A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. *Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop’s non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/Photo of Colm Tóibín by Brigitte Lacombe See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Irish author Colm Tóibín is among the world’s most celebrated contemporary writers. His works includes novels such as Nora Webster and The Blackwater Lightship, but also journalism, criticism, drama and more. His book Brooklyn was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Saoirse Ronan, and his writing has been translated into over thirty languages.Colm has explored the experiences of other novelists and creative thinkers in his writing. His recent title, The Magician, traced the life of German writer Thomas Mann, and his book The Master, an international literary sensation, told the story of the novelist Henry James.Alongside the release of his debut collection of poems, Vinegar Hill, Colm gives fellow Irish writer Helen Cullen an insight into how he works, taking her through his writing process, how he gathers his ideas and his approach to refining his work.They explore the differences and similarities in techniques of writing prose and poetry, and how influence can be drawn from outside the literary world. Helen discovers what it is like to immerse oneself in the creative of mind of figures such as Henry James, and how it shaped Colm as a writer.Presenter: Helen CullenReadings: Matthew DurkanProducer: Sam PeachExecutive Producer: Rebecca Armstrong for the BBC World Service

Colm Tóibín, the new laureate for Irish fiction, talks to Joseph Rezek of Boston University, and guest host Tara K. Menon of Harvard. The conversation begins with Colm’s latest novel The Magician, about the life of Thomas Mann, and whether we can or should think of novelists as magicians and then moves swiftly from one big question to the next. What are the limitations of the novel as a genre? Would Colm ever be interested in a writing a novel about an openly gay novelist? Why and how does death figure in Colm’s fiction? Each of Colm’s revealing, often deeply personal answers illuminates how both novels and novelists work. As Thoman Mann wrote of the “grubby business” of writing novels, Colm reminds us of the “day to day dullness of novel writing.” Insight and inspiration only arrive, he warns, after long, hard days of work.Mentioned in this episode:Robinson Crusoe (1719), Daniel DefoePride and Prejudice (1813), Jane AustenThe Portrait of a Lady (1881), Henry JamesThe Wings of the Dove(1902), Henry JamesThe Ambassadors (1903), Henry JamesThe Golden Bowl(1904), Henry JamesThe Blackwater Lightship(1999), Colm TóibínThe Master (2004), Colm TóibínBrooklyn(2009), Colm TóibínThe Testament of Mary(2012), Colm TóibínNora Webster(2015), Colm TóibínThe Magician(2021), Colm TóibínAarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Colm Tóibín, the new laureate for Irish fiction, talks to Joseph Rezek of Boston University, and guest host Tara K. Menon of Harvard. The conversation begins with Colm’s latest novel The Magician, about the life of Thomas Mann, and whether we can or should think of novelists as magicians and then moves swiftly from one big question to the next. What are the limitations of the novel as a genre? Would Colm ever be interested in a writing a novel about an openly gay novelist? Why and how does death figure in Colm’s fiction? Each of Colm’s revealing, often deeply personal answers illuminates how both novels and novelists work. As Thoman Mann wrote of the “grubby business” of writing novels, Colm reminds us of the “day to day dullness of novel writing.” Insight and inspiration only arrive, he warns, after long, hard days of work.Mentioned in this episode:Robinson Crusoe (1719), Daniel DefoePride and Prejudice (1813), Jane AustenThe Portrait of a Lady (1881), Henry JamesThe Wings of the Dove(1902), Henry JamesThe Ambassadors (1903), Henry JamesThe Golden Bowl(1904), Henry JamesThe Blackwater Lightship(1999), Colm TóibínThe Master (2004), Colm TóibínBrooklyn(2009), Colm TóibínThe Testament of Mary(2012), Colm TóibínNora Webster(2015), Colm TóibínThe Magician(2021), Colm TóibínAarthi Vadde is Associate Professor of English at Duke University. Email: aarthi.vadde@duke.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

In this episode, Matt and Ryan were afforded the immense pleasure of speaking to one of the greatest living novelists of our time, Colm Tóibín. Tóibín joined us on the occasion of his latest novel, 'The Magician', being released in paperback. The novel traces the life of 20th-century German writer Thomas Mann, author of 'The Magic Mountain', 'Death in Venice', and 'Buddenbrooks.' Thomas lived a life of profound contradictions and complexity. He was a homosexual man happily married to a woman who bore him six highly eccentric children. He was a German nationalist who became a fierce critic of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Above all, Thomas was a person most comfortable in his study, working confidently on his books, away from the fray. Due to the broad sweep of German history during the first half of the 20th-century, this position becomes untenable, and Thomas is forced by circumstance to become a man of action and consequence.As you will hear from the conversation, Tóibín has become something of an expert on Thomas Mann, and speaks about his life in a way that grabs you from the first moment of the conversation. We could not be more thrilled to have spoken to him about this truly remarkable novel, perhaps the finest book Tóibín has written to date.Hosted by Ryan Edgington and Matt Hennessey.