Poets & Writers Theater

“You really have to write as though this will be it, that there won’t be another chance with this, as though paper is scarce.” For this LIVE From NYPL event, award-winning author Colm Tóibín reads from his newest novel, Long Island (Scribner, 2024), and discusses the challenges of writing about extended families in a conversation with Caoilinn Hughes.

“You’ve got one idea that excites you, and all these other ideas start to kind of come out of it.” In this Sligo County Libraries event, award-winning author Paul Murray discusses the middle-class challenges of the characters in his latest novel, The Bee Sting (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), in a conversation with Colm Tóibín.

“The more you know about the book, the better the book becomes,” says author Colm Tóibín about James Joyce’s iconic novel Ulysses in this Morgan Library & Museum video introducing their exhibition “One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s Ulysses,” which showcases printed books, manuscripts, letters, handwritten notes, and photographs from Joyce’s life and career.

"What's very odd is the difference between the dream world of the United States and the reality." In a conversation at the Center for Fiction in 2012, Irish novelists Belinda McKeon and Colm Tóibín discuss the struggles and triumphs that come with writing while traveling between Ireland and the United States.