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29 June 2024, Bill King, The third weekend in June, We saw where the great tightrope-walkerKarl Wallenda scaled the canyon on a tightrope back in 1970.
WaPo|en|date=19 March 2025|author=Ron Charles (critic)|title=Colum McCann’s ‘’ drags us to the depths of the ocean|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20250322074515/https://washingtonpost.com/books/2025/03/19/twist-colum-mccann-review/|passage=The novel, which went on to win both a National Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, presents several apparently disparate stories while a tightrope-walker modeled after Philippe Petit tiptoes between the twin towers on a wire.
