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; The Testament of Mary; 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 as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Tóibín has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize.

Long Island is the quietly heartbreaking sequel to Tóibín’s Brooklyn. It is an exploration of societal pressures and expectations, longing, regret, secrets, and desire.  Eilis Lacey’s return to Ireland in mid-life provides the backdrop for a nuanced and exquisite examination of personal choice and destiny.

“Dazzling yet devastating...Tóibín is simply one of the world’s best living literary writers.” —The Boston Globe

“Momentous and hugely affecting.” —The Wall Street Journal

Silas House is a bestselling author of seven novels, one book of creative nonfiction, and four plays. His most recent novel, Lark Ascending, was a Booklist Editors' Choice and is the winner of the Southern Book Prize, the Nautilus Book Award, and other honors. He was the recipient of the Duggins Prize, the largest award for an LGBTQ writer in the nation, and was named Appalachian of the Year in a nationwide poll. House was inducted as the Poet Laureate of Kentucky for 2023-2025 and became a Grammy finalist.

House’s writing has appeared recently in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Time, Garden & Gun, The New York Times, and many others. House is a former commentator for NPR's All Things Considered.