Colum McCann Interview About Let the Great World Spin

A Conversation with Colum McCann

By Farah Miller
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the July 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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In Let the Great World Spin, novelist Colum McCann plays with the idea of balance, starting with Philippe Petit's 1974 glorious tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, and in stories of ordinary New Yorkers tied, however tangentially, to that event. Read

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