The News from Dublin — A Conversation with Colm Toibin
Celebrated novelist and Columbia professor Colm Toibin discusses his latest work in an intimate afternoon conversation at the Heyman Center.
Why we picked this
Toibin writes about exile, belonging, and the weight of home with a precision that makes his novels feel like they were written specifically for whoever is reading them. Hearing him talk is the next best thing.
Colm Toibin, the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia, sits down for an afternoon conversation about his latest work. Toibin is the author of Brooklyn, The Master, Nora Webster, and numerous other novels and essay collections that have made him one of the most respected literary voices working in English today. His writing returns again and again to Ireland, to exile, and to the quiet devastation of ordinary life.
The event is sponsored by the Society for Senior Scholars, with the Heyman Center co-hosting. The intimate setting (the Heyman Center’s Second Floor Common Room) makes this a conversation rather than a performance, which suits a writer whose best qualities emerge in close quarters.
Free and open to the public at the Heyman Center, Columbia University.