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 "Boylan has a lot going for him."
Harvey Pekar "Raise a glass to this Laurence Sterne of our day." BuchKritiken/Ultimo (Germany) "Comparisons to James Joyce will come inevitably." Minnesota Daily [Für meine deutschsprachigen Leser, ich habe eine
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mit Bewertungen, Links, und die Fotos.] I am an American writer with family roots in Ireland and the New York area. In the once-traditional fashion of writers–such as Vladimir Nabokov, with whom I am pictured above–I traveled widely when young and acquired an education and varied experience of life high and low in different countries, notably Switzerland, France, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Germany, and the UK. 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. 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 as No. 13 of "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, Killoyle Wine and Cheese, also translated by Rowohlt, was first published in Germany in 2006 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 is forthcoming in English and in German translation (by Rowohlt and Susanne Aeckerle). 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 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 am a regular contributor to Boston Review's New Fiction Forum, and my stories and articles have appeared in many other journals and reviews, including The New York Times Book Review, The Economist 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. A memoir, Shoplifiting at Dracula's, is currently being serialized in The Snug, and another novel, Ohiowa Impromptu, is in the works (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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