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T.’s 2022 Year in Books
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T. Coraghessan Boyle
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The Tortilla Curtain (Penguin Books with Reading Guides)
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1995
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82 editions
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Drop City
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2003
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36 editions
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The Women
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2009
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54 editions
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The Harder They Come
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2015
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36 editions
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The Road to Wellville
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1993
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33 editions
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Water Music
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1981
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47 editions
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The Terranauts
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2016
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32 editions
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When the Killing's Done
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2011
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38 editions
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The Inner Circle
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2003
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36 editions
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Talk Talk
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2006
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44 editions
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Rain Time, Digital Rot
Snow on the mountains! We had another salvatory rainstorm this past week and it brought record-low temperatures and a nice little deluge. Felt good. Gave me an excuse to build a fire nightly to dry things out and bring comfort to my wife, the dog, the cat and me. At the moment—ten a.m., last day of February—the snow has melted off the peaks and the sun is shining in its eternal, oppressive way, bu
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T. Boyle
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Merry, Merry, Happy, Happy
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Seán wrote: "¡Saludos desde el Litoral del Brasil Noreste!*
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Peter wrote: "16 May is my birthday! So thoughtful of you to schedule publication just for me :)"
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Slaughter of the Inncocents
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All hail to Cedering Fox, founder of WordTheatre, who has persuaded brilliant actors to perform my stories on many, many happy occasions over the year
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Jim wrote: "Thank you for another delightful post, TC. My copy of "I Walk Between the Raindrops" has arrived and is waiting for me on my reading stand
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I hear you, Kathryn. But I am stealthy. And the coyotes are most appreciative.
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“I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my paper route, turned my back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. I dropped out of college, sidestepped the army with a 4-F on the grounds of mental instability, went back to school, made a go of it, entered a Ph.D. program in nineteenth-century British literature, sat in the front row, took notes assiduously, bought a pair of horn-rims, and quit on the eve of my comprehensive exams. I got married, separated, divorced. Quit smoking, quit jogging, quit eating red meat. I quit jobs: digging graves, pumping gas, selling insurance, showing pornographic films in an art theater in Boston. When I was nineteen I made frantic love to a pinch-faced, sack-bosomed girl I'd known from high school. She got pregnant. I quit town.”
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“But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it."
[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]”
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[Peter Wild Interviews TC Boyle, 3:AM Magazine, June 2003]”
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“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as putting a bottle to your lips or a spike in your arm. Call it the impulse to make something out of nothing, call it an obsessive-compulsive disorder, call it logorrhea. Have you been in a bookstore lately? Have you seen what these authors are doing, the mountainous piles of the flakes of themselves they're leaving behind, like the neatly labeled jars of shit, piss, and toenail clippings one of John Barth's characters bequeathed to his wife, the ultimate expression of his deepest self?”
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| Glens Falls (NY) ...: New York Times Books Update - 1/30/09 | 3 | 35 | Mar 02, 2009 08:05PM | |
| Every one's Choice: November - Oliver Twist | 46 | 50 | Nov 23, 2009 06:24AM | |
| Glens Falls (NY) ...: What are U reading these days? (Part Five) (begun 3/12/09) | 1049 | 494 | Dec 31, 2009 10:39PM | |
Glens Falls (NY) ...:
2009 - BOOK DISCUSSIONS AT THE CRANDALL LIBRARY IN GLENS FALLS, NY (2009) (two different groups)
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3 | 52 | Jan 03, 2010 09:28AM | |
| Literary Fiction ...: Best Reads of 2009 | 49 | 93 | Jan 05, 2010 07:20AM | |
| Questions for T.C. Boyle | 2 | 51 | Jan 13, 2010 07:24PM | |
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The Seasonal Read...:
20.4 (Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride - Heidi - Our Histories)
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125 | 236 | May 08, 2010 06:14AM |
