In this episode of the Fashion Neurosis podcast hosted by Bella Freud, Colm Tóibín talks about the importance of writing physical character details in stories, how books awards can sometimes feel like “a theater of cruelty,” and shares the backstory to his 2019 London Review of Books essay about his experience of diagnosis and treatment for testicular cancer.
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