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Library Live: Colm Toibin

Long Island and Brooklyn

LIBRARY LIVE 2025 - 2026

 

The Newport Beach Public Library Foundation presents

We are thrilled to welcome these four brilliant authors to our 2025-26 series. Library Live is for adventurous readers who enjoy hearing from established literary figures and emerging talent. Novelists, poets, historians, journalists, biographers, memoirists and more share their ideas firsthand with our community. Participate, engage, and be challenged by our presentations with today’s most gifted scribes.

Toibin PR Photo (Credit Reynaldo Rivera)long-island-Colm Toibin


Colm Toibin

Long Island and Brooklyn


Thursday, March 12, 2026, 7 p.m. 

The event will be held in the Friends Room, Central Library

 Buy Tickets:  https://nbplf.foundation/programs/library-live-24-25/

Colm Tóibín is a renowned Irish writer known for his extensive body of work, including fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. His latest novel, Long Island, is a New York Times bestseller and continues the story of Eilis Lacey from his acclaimed book Brooklyn, which received multiple awards and was adapted into a film. Tóibín's notable works include The Master, which explores the life of Henry James, and The Magician, a portrayal of Thomas Mann, both of which have earned critical acclaim. He has received numerous literary awards, served as the Laureate for Irish Fiction, and is a professor at Columbia University. Tóibín's writing often delves into themes of Irish society, exile, Catholicism, and personal identity. In addition to novels, he has written essays, edited collections, and staged plays, showcasing his diverse literary contributions.


**Programs starts at 7:00pm and check-in at 6:30pm

 

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