Colum McCann
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Different Voices: A Conversation with Crystal Hana Kim
Crystal Hana Kim discusses her debut novel, IF YOU LEAVE ME.
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Reading Colum McCann to My Daughter
I think we need to listen closer for the stories that shake us up the most … and then share them and talk about them with the people we love. And the people we don’t.
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Notable NYC: 4/1–4/7
Saturday 4/1: Paolo Javier and Jill Magi join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 4/2: Robin Myers and translator Ezequiel Zaidenwerg discuss Conflations. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 5:30 p.m., free. Monday 4/3: Fiona Maazel, Alissa Nutting, Robert Lopez,…
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Notable Philadelphia: 3/28–4/3
Tuesday 3/28: Lithuania, NE-HI, and Laser Background. 7:30 p.m. at PhilaMOCA, $10. Moving Sale! 12 p.m.–8 p.m. at R&D Vinyl, free. Wednesday 3/29: Excuse My Dust: Poetry and Humor. Featuring: Gabriel Ojeda-Sague, Chris McCreary, and Nicole Yates. 7 p.m. at Good Good Comedy…
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Notable Portland: 2/23–3/1
Thursday 2/23: Celebrate the launch of Mercy Strongheart’s debut novel, A Boy Named Trout, with a live reading complete with snacks and beverages. 20% of book sales will go to the p:ear gallery. p:ear, 6:30 p.m., free. Enjoy a free…
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The Big Idea: John Freeman
John Freeman, Executive Editor at Lit Hub, talks with Suzanne Koven about his new print-only literary magazine Freeman’s, the difference between between criticism and editing, and his fear of flying.
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Those Who Dwell Under New York
A consequence of darkness is mystery. The farther underground I went, the more mysterious the people became. More over at Lit Hub from Colum McCann about getting to know the thousands of people who once lived in the tunnels under Manhattan.
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Reserved for the Dead and Dignified
For the New Yorker’s “Inner Worlds,” Colum McCann writes about his father’s writing shed, and Teju Cole shares his experience of watching (and rewatching) Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Red.”
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This Week in Short Fiction
On Wednesday evening, Phil Klay’s Redeployment won the National Book Award for fiction, making it the first short story collection to win the award since Andrea Barrett’s Ship Fever in 1996. That’s 18 years. But what’s maybe more startling is…
