BONUS EPISODE: Colm Tóibín, in conversation with Alice McCrum

What did James Joyce’s Ulysses do to literature, and how has
literature reacted since? What is its role in the contemporary
literary landscape? In celebration of the book’s centennial and
in anticipation of Bloomsday, novelist and scholar Colm Tóibín
spoke to Alice McCrum on May 27, 2022 at the American Library in
Paris with a live audience both in person and on Zoom about the
history, publication, and legacy of the book to which, in the
words of T.S. Eliot, “we are all indebted, and from which none of
us can escape.”


Colm Tóibín is a novelist, essayist, and critic. He is the author
of many works, including The Blackwater Lightship (1996),
shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Master (2004), awarded the
2006 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2004 Los Angeles
Times Novel of the Year, and Brooklyn (2009), awarded the Costa
Novel Award. Tóibín received the Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2019 and the David Cohen Prize for Literature in 2021.


A student of environmental policy at Sciences Po-Paris, Alice
McCrum runs programming at the American Library in Paris. 





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Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.


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Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.


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