Award-winning Irish writer
Colm Toibin firmly believes the novel will remain fundamentally unchanged by the Internet or other high-tech innovations, a realm in which he admits he is nearly illiterate.
Toibin, the author of such critically acclaimed novels as
Brooklyn, The Master and
The Blackwater Lightship, is set this week to appear on a panel to discuss The Author in the Age of the Internet, part of the London Review of Books' 30th anniversary celebration events in New York.
Toibin is a technophobe. He writes with a fountain pen on paper and cannot figure out how to send e-mails by phone. An interview with Reuters on Tuesday was delayed as Toibin fumbled with his cell phone, repeatedly failing to answer it.
I actually miss most calls, Toibin said apologetically over a landline from Princeton University where he teaches. Like an awful lot of writers, I am barely literate in the things that seem to matter now.
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