In a published conversation with the writer Nathan Englander, Colum McCann, the author of Let the Great World Spin, quotes Mandelstam: But we must love this poor earth, for... »

If great fiction holds a mirror to life, then in Olive Kitteridge we see ourselves for who we are: vulnerable, tragic, sublime, radiant and all too human… Olive Kitteridge is a unified collection of stories, linked by Olive the retired school teacher, whose larger than life presence fills almost all the stories in this book. »

When the times are dark, the soul often finds surprising sources of light. A novel about the redemptive and transformational power of the written word… »

When death comes unexpectedly during life's most ordinary moments shaking the core of the unprepared with its finality, it impels an instant acknowledgement of its irrevocability. There are also so... »