It was the 2009 National Book Award winner “Let the Great World Spin” by Irish author Colum McCann that served as the impetus for UT lecturer David Junker’s neoteric pursuit.
world spinWTC Provides Back Story For Colum McCann's 'Spin'NPR Programs: Morning Edition Fri, 11/27/2009 - 4:20am
McCann's novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award. He tells Steve Inskeep that his book — set in New York on the day a man walked on a tight-rope between the towers of the World Trade Center — is an attempt to reconstruct an event to find moments of grace and understanding in history. |
