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🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Adam talks with Irish novelist Colm Tóibín about New York, Don Trump, whether the motivations of terrorists are worth considering, whether anything valuable came from having cancer, writing his novel Long Island (the sequel to Brooklyn), why keeping a journal is 'offensive', and the magic of Bob Dylan.
This conversation was recorded via Zoom on April 17th, 2024
CONTAINS VERY STRONG LANGUAGE
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and conversation editing
Podcast illustration by Helen Green
RELATED LINKS
LONG ISLAND by Colm Tóibín (Audiobook narrated by Jessie Buckley) - 2024 (AUDIBLE)
AMONG THE FLUTTERERS: THE POPE WEARS PRADA by Colm Tóibín - 2010 (LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS)
IN RESPONSE TO 9/11 - 4th October 2001 (LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS)
COLM TÓIBÍN ON DESERT ISLAND DISCS - 2016 (BBC SOUNDS)
COLM TÓIBÍN ON THE VERB - 2023 (BBC SOUNDS)
THE NEW YORKER FICTION PODCAST - COLM TÓIBÍN READS MARY LAVIN - 2017 (APPLE PODCASTS)
40 MINUTES - HEART OF THE ANGEL - 1989 (BBC I-PLAYER)
40 MINUTES - MIXED BLESSINGS - 1988 (BBC I-PLAYER)
GERI Directed by Molly Dineen - 1999 (YOUTUBE)
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0:59.0 | I'm talking to you on a beautiful cold evening |
1:02.0 | as the sun goes down out here in Norfolk County in the |
1:07.1 | last week of October 2024. My dog friend Rosie is back at home. She's curled up on the sofa, not interested in a walk this evening. |
1:17.5 | But I wanted to come out, I've been cooped up all day. I'm just catching the last of the sunset probably by the time I finish |
1:26.9 | my outro it'll be dark and then the clocks are going to go back aren aren't they? And then we're going to be plunged into eternal darkness. Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. |
1:39.0 | How are you doing, Podcats? I hope you're well. Thank you very much for downloading this episode of the |
1:44.8 | podcast which features well it's not really a rambling conversation this one my |
1:48.8 | guest is not someone who typically dwells in my comfort zone, i.e. the world of silly superficial |
1:58.2 | chit-chat. He is in fact considered, not that these two are mutually exclusive, but he has been called |
2:06.9 | one of Ireland's greatest novelists. |
2:09.0 | He is Colum Tobin. |
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