"Let the Great World Spin Author Colum McCann Gives Amy Ryan a Reading Lesson from New York Magazine by Alex Vadukul

Colum McCann, the National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin, will be curating tonight's performance of "Selected Shorts," the series held at New York City's Symphony Space in which actors read the host author's favorite short stories. McCann recruited Mary-Louise Parker and Michael Cerveris to read other writers' works, but Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, The Office) will be taking on one of McCann's own pieces, called "Everything in this Country Must." This will be no cold reading: The author and actress met Friday for the first time at an Upper East Side café to discuss his book and her approach, and Vulture tagged along.

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"Turn some real pages this Reading Week" from North by Northwestern by Dan Camponovo

Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann: Remember life before the World Trade Center fell? All those years ago? Yeah, me either, really. I was 11. They say it was nice, and Colum McCann tries to capture that lost feeling in his National Book Award-winning novel. Jumping back and forth between 1974, when Philippe Petit famously tight-rope walked between the Twin Towers, and a present day New York City prostitute’s courtoom trial, Let the Great World Spin stands as a toast to the towers we lost, as they were on September 10, 2001, and as a promise that we, all of us, as New Yorkers and Americans, will rebuild and grow bigger and stronger than we ever were.

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