Colm Tóibín
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
in Terminal 5 in JFK, which used to be the Aer Lingus Terminal.
It's not now because JetBlue gets bigger.
It used to have a Muji shop.
And every time I went there, I bought loads of socks in Muji.
I've never found a Muji that, you know, the same.
But anyway, they're from Muji.
In Paris, there's a man who's in the news at the moment.
And he was the head, he is or was the head of Grasset, which is my publisher.
And recently he's had to resign or he's been fired by an awful fellow who owns Hachette.
And he did something appalling.
I mean, he wanted Olivia to publish his most dreadful book by a most dreadful man.
And of course, Olivia wouldn't do it.
But I have a wonderful editor called Joachim Schnerf.
And Joachim and myself would go and see Olivia in his big office because he was a big boss.