Here’s a notebook belonging to the Irish writer Colm Toibin, whose latest novel, “Brooklyn,” has just been published:
He wrote “Brooklyn†while teaching at Stanford, and this spring, in little more than a month, he turned out two book reviews and a 10,000-word short story, the first thing he has written on a computer. He usually writes longhand with disposable fountain pens, not that it slows him down. He is the author of six novels, one play, three travel books, a short-story collection and two books with photographers. He has edited a few anthologies, including the Penguin Book of Irish Fiction. Just for fun, he’s also the art critic for British Esquire.
