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by Colum McCann


  Yours very truly,

  Colum McCann

  For Jennifer Raab, Sarah Chalfant, Alexandra Pringle, and Jennifer Hershey. And for all the young writers you have brought to the world.

  BY COLUM MCCANN

  FICTION

  Thirteen Ways of Looking

  TransAtlantic

  Let the Great World Spin

  Zoli

  Dancer

  Everything in This Country Must

  This Side of Brightness

  Songdogs

  Fishing the Sloe-Back River

  NONFICTION

  Letters to a Young Writer

  The Book of Men (editor)

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  COLUM MCCANN is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as three critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in forty languages. He has received many honors, including the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres award from the French government, and the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. He has been named one of Esquire’s “Best and Brightest,” and his short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. In 2017 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children, and he is the cofounder of the global nonprofit story exchange organization, Narrative 4.

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