Council Literary Series with Colm Tóibín
11:00 am | Reception
11:30 am | Author Program
12:30 pm | Lunch and Book Signing
The Maybourne Beverly Hills (225 N Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210)
Parking Information
Please note that parking will not be hosted. Guests have the following options:
- Valet Parking at The Maybourne – $23 for the first 3 hours, then $3 per additional half-hour.
- Self-Parking at Beverly Canon Gardens (242 N Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210) – Free for the first 2 hours, then $3 per additional half-hour. A $5 flat rate applies for vehicles entering after 6 PM. Daily maximum: $22.
If you have any questions, please email The Council office at thecouncil@lfla.org or call 213.228.7506.
Colm Tóibín’s novel, Long Island, was an Oprah’s Book Club Pick and was named a best book of 2024 by Time Magazine, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Glamour, Fresh Air, NPR, The Guardian, The Economist, The Times Literary Supplement, The Times (London), The Irish Times, The New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, and more.
“Momentous and hugely affecting. These pendant novels, will be the fiction for which this wonderful writer is best remembered.” —Wall Street Journal [Read More]
“Rich and doubly suspenseful… Tóibín, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what’s next.” —Los Angeles Times [Read More]
“Dazzling yet devastating… Tóibín is simply one of the world’s best living literary writers…” —The Boston Globe [Read More]
Our Guest Writer:
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. He was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. He was also awarded the Bodley Medal, the Würth Prize for European Literature, and the Prix Femina spécial for his body of work.
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter
Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences Division, Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at UCLA. Coiner of #BlackLivesMatter, he is the author and editor of five books, including Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation (HarperCollins / Amistad, 2024). Professor Hunter served as the Inaugural Chair of UCLA’s African American Studies Department and President of the Association of Black Sociologists. The National Science Foundation and Social Science Research Council have also supported his research. In addition, Hunter drafted and advised Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s historic Bill to establish the first-ever US Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation Commission. He has appeared on C-SPAN’s BookTV, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, the Sacramento Bee, the Los Angeles Times, the LA Sentinel, USA Today, the Daily Beast, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.
