 | Anne Enright reads from her recent work on Wednesday, September 26 at 7:30 pm in Higgins Hall, room 300. Her novel The Gathering was recently shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize. Earlier fiction includes The Pleasures of Eliza Lynch, What are You Like? (Royal Society of Author's Encore Prize), The Wig My Father Wore, and The Portable Virgin (Rooney Prize for Irish Literature). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and The London Review of Books. Photograph Credit: Joe O'Shaughnessy |
 | Colum McCann reads from his recent work on Thursday, November 1 at 7:30 pm in Connolly House. McCann, whose novel Zoli was released earlier this year, is the author of four novels (Dancer, This Side of Brightness and Songdogs) and two collections of short stories (Everything in this Country Must and Fishing the Sloe-Black River). McCann was named Esquire magazine's "Writer of the Year" in 2003 and his other awards include a Pushcart Prize and the Rooney Prize. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and GQ among other places. His short film, "Everything in this Country Must," directed by Gary McKendry, was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. Photograph credit: James Higgins |
