Colm Tóibín, author of The Master and Brooklyn, has just published The Empty Family, a collection of short stories. Hermione Lee described Tóibín as "a fine lyricist of exile, yearning and regret" (The Guardian). He is currently Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University. On December 2, 2012, Tóibín presented "The End of the Family: Jane Austen and the Victorian Novel."
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