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"Comparisons to James Joyce will come inevitably." "Raise a glass to this Laurence Sterne of our day." "Boylan has a lot going for him." "Bravo!" I am an American writer with family roots in Ireland and the New York area. In the once-traditional fashion of writers, I traveled widely when young and acquired an education and varied experience of life high and low in different countries, notably Switzerland, France, Italy, Germany, Scotland, and Ireland. (You can admire photos from some of these travels here.) Later, back in New York City, I worked (again, respecting tradition) at several jobs: translator, bartender, bookstore clerk, urban planning technician, computer network administrator, and English and French teacher. I now live near Austin, Texas, with my family.
Read my Wikipedia entry here. Visit my Facebook page here. Follow me on Twitter here. My novel Killoyle is published by Dalkey Archive Press. According to Harvey Pekar, it ranks "among the most impressive novels written by an American in recent years." A survey of booksellers across the U.S. listed Killoyle among "The 100 Funniest Works of Fiction." My second novel, The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad, published by Grove Press, was deemed "a splendid novel in every way" by the eminent critic Steven Moore, and The Village Voice said it "resembles Joyce at his comically prolix best." German versions of both novels, translated by the award-winning German translator and author Harry Rowohlt, were critically and commercially successful. The third Killoyle novel, The Maladjusted Terrorist, also translated by Rowohlt, was first published in Germany in 2006 (as Killoyle Wein und Käse) and is forthcoming in English. You can read an excerpt from it here. In 2007 Kein & Aber, a Swiss publisher, reissued the entire Killoyle trilogy as a boxed set.
My latest novel, The Adorations, a "novel in double time," takes on the mysteries of mysticism, religion, and Adolf Hitler and was scheduled for publication in 2007 in German translation (by Rowohlt and Susanne Aeckerle) before the publisher pulled the plug, citing economic hardship. You can read the first two chapters here. On this website, you can find descriptions and reviews of my books in English and German, my essays from The New York Times Book Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere, interviews, excerpts from my novels past, present, and future, a complete short story, a page of quotations and tales of rejection I find encouraging, or at least amusing, and an occasional blog (is there any other kind?) called The Snug.
I have been a regular contributor to Boston Review for over 10 years, and my stories and articles have appeared in many other journals and reviews, including The New York Times Book Review, The Economist, The Scotsman, and Context. Automobile-related miscellany of mine occasionally shows up on the online automotive journal Autosavant. I am on the faculty of Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut, as a lecturer in creative writing. Another novel, Ohiowa Impromptu, is in its final stages and occasionally gets excerpted in The Snug (read a chapter here). Comments? If you want to read more of my work, are moved to compliment or criticize, or would like to arrange a reading or panel discussion, you can reach me c/o Alex Glass, Trident Media Group LLC, 41 Madison Avenue, Floor 36, New York, NY 10010, or at roger_boylan@hotmail.com. Onward!
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