Last night at Cipriani Wall Street, Colum McCann was awarded the National Book Award for fiction for his novel Let the Great World Spin. A novel, “featuring a sprawling cast of characters in 1970s New York City whose lives,” the New York Times wrote, “are ineluctably touched by the mysterious tightrope walker who traverses a wire suspended between the Twin Towers one morning.”

On stage accepting the award, McCann said: “As fiction writers and people who believe in the word, we have to enter the anonymous corners of human experience to make that little corner right.”

This Feb 24, Colum McCann will read at 92Y, joined by novelist John Banville. Tickets are just $10 for those 35 and under. McCann will also teach a Fiction Master Class on Feb 25, applications are now being accepted.

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