Lifting a Pint with Colum McCann

March 18th, 2010 admin

I’m marking the occasion of St. Patrick’s Day by sharing with you a video that Tom shot in the ostensibly Irish pub at the bottom of our office tower. With apologies for the lively crowd noise, I think it’s a pretty wonderful glimpse into the heart of the Dublin-born Colum McCann, whose mid-’70s New York story, Let the Great World Spin , draws illuminating parallels to our American era. When we put it on our Top 10 Best Books of the Year… So Far list last July, McCann was just embarking on his tour, and he sent us a rare missive: he wanted to “break the threshold of cyberspace just to …

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