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Mar.07.2013
Strange how things come about. This week I read Colm Toibin's New Yorker story, "Summer of '38" (also available on Toibin's website). I wouldn't have bothered reading it, had I not earlier randomly listened to podcast with Toibin on Entitled Opinions at the gym, a way to pass time while...
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Jan.05.2012
Colm Tóibín
1 Finish everything you start.
2 Get on with it.
3 Stay in your mental pyjamas all day.
4. Stop feeling sorry for yourself.
5 No alcohol, sex or drugs while you are working.
6 Work in the morning, a short break for lunch, work in the afternoon and then watch the six o'clock...
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Oct.03.2011
This verbal snapshot project is inspired by the gorgeous blog “What I Saw in Berkeley Today: a photoblog love story.” Photographer Dyanna Anfang (in her other life a miracle worker responsible for many people walking upright instead of crawling around on the floor) writes about her pictures, “...
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Jan.05.2010
My Book Recommendation – Brooklyn by Colm Toibin (Costa Prize Winner)
Title: Brooklyn
Author: Colm Toibin
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Viking (7 May 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 067091813X
ISBN-13: 978-0670918133
Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
Product Description
Hauntingly...
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Oct.17.2009
Colm Tóibín gave a short presentation earlier this year at the bookstore Politics & Prose, preceding his reading of the novel, Brooklyn. Among the memorable statements he made was this: he’d forbidden his writing students to use flashback. Though Tóibín has written eloquently about the...
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