John Crowley's beautiful, Oscar-nominated romantic drama Brooklyn, based on Colm Tóibín's book of the same name, has a ...

COLM TOIBIN: Thank you. Sponsor Message KELLY: So alert listeners will recognize the name of your protagonist, Eilis Lacey, ...

Most reporting about the current Presidency and ICE’s deportations has focussed on undocumented Latin Americans living in the U.S. What made you want to tell the story from a different perspective? It ...

The protagonist in Colm Toibin’s earlier novel Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey, returns in Long Island as she navigates her post-war move from small-town Ireland to New York. In the first, she finds a job ...

The novelist talks about Annie Proulx’s 1997 story about two young men who fall in love. “I didn’t want to just read it. I wanted to absorb this story in a more lasting way.” ...

Bookends & Beginnings is pleased to present an evening with bestselling author Colm Tóibín at First United ... sequel to his previous beloved novel Brooklyn), in conversation with WBEZ’s ...

COLM TOIBIN: Thank you. KELLY: So alert listeners will recognize the name of your protagonist, Eilis Lacey, 'cause she was at the center of "Brooklyn ... And so the book began.