Colum McCann On American Mother

哥伦比亚·麦卡恩谈美国母亲

5x15

艺术

2024-04-12

14 分钟
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5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Colum McCann’s seven novels and three collections of short stories have been published in over forty languages and received some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards and honours, including the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin in 2013. TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013, and his most recent novel, Apeirogon, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is an international bestseller on four continents. In his new book, McCann tells the story of Diane Foley, mother of American journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped in northern Syria, and murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A testament to the power of radical empathy and moral courage, American Mother takes us inside one woman’s extraordinary journey to find connection in a world torn asunder, and to fight for others as a way to keep her son’s memory alive. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories
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  • Five times fifteen.

  • Hello.

  • Thank you so much.

  • And a pleasure to be on here.

  • And thank you so much for the.

  • The invitation.

  • Yeah.

  • It's a sunny day here in California, and, you know,

  • I've been pondering, you know, when I hear these wonderful stories.

  • You know, people tell us that the world is held together with atoms,

  • muons and gluons and quarks,

  • and all of these things that the scientists tell us hold the world together.

  • And indeed, that must be true.

  • But it also strikes me that the world is held together with stories,

  • and that's how we get to meet one another.

  • And this story that I want to tell you today is the story that how I got led to this particular book,

  • a number of images that inspired me and shocked me and how they all came together to lead me towards a story that I think is one of the most powerful for me

  • that I have ever experienced.

  • So a lot of you out there will know the photograph that I refer to when I say that in August 2014,

  • the world had its collective soul sort of shook out when there was a picture,