Significant (Little) Moments Pulled From Obscurity
Colum McCann, whose novel, “Let the Great World Spin,” won the National Book Award for fiction last week, finds inspiration by burrowing into lives unlike his own.
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 28 November, 2009
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