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Colm Tóibín: Mothers and Sons
Colm Tóibín candidly describes the inspirations for the stories in his first collection. Sometimes a landscape is enough to trigger a story, sometimes an anecdote or a bit of family lore.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 30m ListenColm Tóibín candidly describes the inspirations for the stories in his first collection, Mothers and Sons: Stories (Scribner). Sometimes a landscape is enough to trigger a story, sometimes an anecdote or a bit of family lore. Tóibín is unusually forthright in telling the story-behind-the-story, showing us how a work of fiction is made.
Read an excerpt from Mothers and Sons.
Photo: Bruce Weber
