Climate Fiction and the Great American Desert
Poison now snakes into what’s left of the water.
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Posts Tagged: T. C. Boyle
The Rumpus Interview with D. Foy
D. Foy discusses his latest novel, Patricide, the evolution of “gutter opera,” his writing process, free will, and memes.
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The Rumpus Interview with Christian Kiefer
Writer, musician, and poet Christian Kiefer discusses his literary influences, the “beautiful, beat up, and weird town” that is Reno, and writing from the perspective of beasts in his new novel The Animals.
...moreUnlike Friends
All we knew was that Casper, with his genius IQ, his measured laugh, his wicked weltanschauung, was somebody really, really interesting to hang out with. A neighborhood kid like anybody else, only not like anybody else. One of us, only not one of us. Over at BuzzFeed Books, T.C. Boyle reminisces about being friend with […]
...moreThe Savagery of T.C. Boyle
So while there might be those out there who really want to elevate (and pigeonhole) Boyle as an important writer dedicating his career and talents to considering these seminal concerns of the American character (or whatever), Harder proves he’s too slick for that. Too clever. And between the bullets, the drugs, the SWAT teams and […]
...moreNotable NYC: 3/28–4/3
Saturday 3/28: Monica McClure, Alexander Nemser, and Lewis Warsh read poetry. Steven Harvey Fine Arts Project, 2 p.m., free. Sunday 3/29: Anna Moschovakis, D. Marcus Johnson, Zahra “Raw Fiction” Patterson, Kim Prosa, Ken Wohlrob, and Akeema Dash Zane read Raw Fiction, hosted by Serena Lin and Shawnta Smith-Cruz. 25 Eastern Parkway, 4 p.m., $10 suggested. […]
...moreA Fictionalized Betrayal
This was my first experience of being fictionalized. I still recall the yellow-white flash of queasiness, the mortification: a sense of powerlessness and an utter lack of recourse. What if a writer friend—or, worse, relative—of yours turned you into one of his characters, maybe in an unflattering way? Over at the Paris Review, Michelle Huneven […]
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The Rumpus Interview with T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle, who has now written over twenty books, talks to The Rumpus about his most recent short story collection, four decades of cooking up high-grade literary tales, the importance of performance during readings, and life at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
...moreWRITING AS A KIND OF WAKING DREAM
The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don’t know and find something out. In his recent essay featured in The New Yorker, writer T. Coraghessan Boyle discusses the act of story writing as “an exercise of the imagination.” I don’t know what a story will be […]
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