The powerHouse Arena is pleased to invite you to a reading, signing, and discussion of:

Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann

In conversation with Daniel Menaker

Friday, February 26, 7–9PM
powerHouse Arena · 37 Main Street (corner of Water & Main St.) · DUMBO, Brooklyn
RSVP: greatworld@powerHouseArena.com

The author will read from, sign, and discuss his 2009 National Book Award-winning novel in celebration of its paperback release, together with former New Yorker editor Daniel Menaker. Due to time constraints, the author will only be signing books purchased at the event.

About Let the Great World Spin:
Let the Great World Spin weaves together a panoramic array of disparate stories and voices: an Irish monk, a hooker in the Bronx, a group of grieving mothers who lost their sons at war, a city judge, an alcoholic, and the tightrope walker who obliquely binds them all together. Inspired by Phillippe Petit's infamous real-life tightrope walk between the Twin Towers in 1974, Let the Great World Spin opens with this moment of unfathomable risk and beauty, and from there spins together the lives of the searching and lonely people scattered below, 110 stories back down on the ground. With his commanding storytelling skills and poet's ear for language, McCann captures the search for some greater, mystical truth or beauty that pulls each character forward, no matter how hard or lonely their path, no matter how much grief and loss and ugliness they encounter. McCann has been called "fiercely original" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "brilliant" (Washington Post) in the past, and his new book exceeds even that great acclaim. Can't make it to the event? Pre-order your signed copy today!

About the Participants:

Colum McCann is the bestselling author of the novels Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed short story collections. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, and The Paris Review, he lives in New York City.

Daniel Menaker has worked as an editor for HarperCollins, Random House, and The New Yorker. He regularly contributes to The New Yorker, the New York Times, HuffingtonPost.com, and Slate.com. Presently, he serves as editorial producer and presenter for the online book program Titlepage. His book about the art of conversation, A Good Talk, was published this year.