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T.’s 2023 Year in Books
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T. Coraghessan Boyle
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The Tortilla Curtain
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1995
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45 editions
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Drop City
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2003
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48 editions
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The Women
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2009
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65 editions
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The Harder They Come
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2015
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37 editions
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The Road to Wellville
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1993
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64 editions
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Water Music
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1981
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7 editions
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The Terranauts
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2016
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34 editions
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When the Killing's Done
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2011
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44 editions
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The Inner Circle
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2003
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45 editions
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Talk Talk
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2006
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22 editions
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The Breaks
When I was in the opening stages of writing "Blue Skies," I sent one of my principal characters, Cooper Cullen—who was dating an acarologist—out into the field with her to collect ticks for study. It was a windy day. They collected nothing, the sheet they were dragging through the chaparral flapping in their hands, and yet, later, just as he was getting ready for bed, he noticed a miniscule tick l
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Even if I wind up limbless and brainless?
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Thanks, Terry. I love what I'm doing and love that you love it too. Stay tuned on X for all the latest musings and absurdities.
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Aw, shucks: what a kind thing to say. I am very pleased. And I hope to have more stories and novels coming down the pike for your reading enjoyment (a
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Doubting Thomas No More
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Sorry, Carol. A forum like this should be open to diverse points of view. Especially on April 1, when we can all enjoy a good joke. If you read my boo
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David wrote: "Not having guns, and hence not shooting anything other than rapids, we don't have bumbershoots in Canada. For stuff that falls from the
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We have them over biweekly for marmite sandwiches and warm sherry.
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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 | |
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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 | 97 | 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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