Colm Tóibín Digitally: Irish Memoir, 200 Novels, McCabe Story

This month Colm Tóibín publishes a brief memoir of growing up in Enniscorthy and his early adulthood in Dublin called A Guest at the Feast. Americans can read the first two pages but you can't buy it and you can't import it. The work is available only as an e-book and exclusively in the UK. The Penguin Shorts series also features brand new, low-priced short fiction by Anita Brookner and Helen Dunmore.

American readers can buy Tóibín's e-book The Modern Library in which he and Carmen Callil select the best 200 novels written since 1950. At first glance, I love their list.

For 99 cents Ann Patchett will tell you the secrets of The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life.

Readers angry about these works not being printed on paper can relax by listening to the soothing sounds of Tóibín's voice for 32 minutes reading and discussing Eugene McCabe's short story "Music at Annahullian."

Comments

[Sandy]

Thanks for the link to the podcast. But still miffed (not angry) that I can't access the memoir. Oh, well, not all that miffed, as it happens.