Colm Tóibín launches his new collection, Mothers and Sons

Tuesday, February 6th at 7pm

Colm Tóibín launches Mothers and Sons, a collection of stories which offers rich, powerful portraits of individuals at pivotal moments in their lives, within the context of their mother-son relationship.  Tóibín confirms his role as a great prose stylist whilst examining an important yet complicated relationship with intricacy, sophistication, and mastery. Tóibín is the author of five novels, The South; The Heather Blazing; The Story of the Night; The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Impac Dublin award; and The Master, a fictional account of Henry James that won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and won the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year and the Stonewall Book Award.  His nonfiction works include Homage to Barcelona, Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, and Love In a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar.  As a cultural critic and political commentator, he has written for the London Review of Books, the Sunday Independent, and the Sunday Tribune.  He also has served as the editor of the Irish current affairs magazine Magill.

The reading is free and open to the public, jointly cosponsored by both the NYU Creative Writing Program and Glucksman Ireland House NYU. Seating is limited and reservations are suggested: (212) 998-3950, option 3, or ireland.house@nyu.edu. Directions to Glucksman Ireland House NYU.