Montauk, on Long Island, where Colm Toibin's new novel is set - Tetra How does a writer revive their best-loved characters? How do they pay service to a story for which hundreds of thousands of ...

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Public Library is celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a talk from Irish author Colm Toibin. The library says Toibin will read from his novel "Brooklyn" on Thursday at the ...

Colm Toibin's new novel opens with a heartbreaker of a dilemma. His main character, Eilis Lacey, opens her front door to a stranger who accuses Eilis' husband of having an affair with his wife, an ...

"Brooklyn," Colm Toibin’s sixth novel which will go on sale May 5, is a spellbinding tale of a shy young Irish woman’s journey into adulthood. It’s certain to mark Toibin’s transition from a ...

Colm Tóibín, author of “Brooklyn” and “The Empty Family” first encountered “The Children’s Grandmother,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, in an old collection of New Yorker short stories that he bought at a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “She was nobody here. It was not just that she had no friends and family; it was rather that she was a ghost in this room, in the ...