San Miguel By T. C. Boyle Viking, 384 pages (This review was originally published by the Washington Independent Review of Books on November 16, 2012.) Thomas Coraghessan Boyle, speaking of his novel Greasy Lake, about three hipster college kids, told The Paris Review that, “the world, far from being your oyster, is a dangerous place […]
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T C Boyle would like a (very) quiet word with you
Sunday, November 18th, 2012Pepperland coming Spring 2013…
Thursday, October 18th, 2012News flash! Pepperland – the novel – will be published in the spring of 2013 by Running Meter Press, an imprint of Big Earth Publishing of Boulder, CO! Paperback and ebook. Let’s rock. Think the Ramones meet Jane Fonda meets Bill Gates. What? Pepperland is a noir love letter to the magic of music, the […]
He do the desert in different voices…
Monday, March 19th, 2012(This review was originally published in the Washington Independent Review of Books on March 19, 2012.) Astronaut David Bowman, after painfully decommissioning the charming rogue supercomputer HAL as they approach Jupiter’s moon Iapetus in the 1968 film 2001 A Space Odyssey, confronts a space oddity. To those of us who saw the epic movie by […]
Up on critter creek…
Sunday, August 7th, 2011My digital turntable is spinning. I have flipped on the magical Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Rob Young, writing in his marvelous new survey of Britain’s “visionary music” of the last one hundred years, Electric Eden, calls the piece, “magisterial…gliding out of the dock like a gigantic galleon.” This […]
I, Keymaster
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011Earlier this year, I was named fiction editor of Montpelier, Vermont-based Hunger Mountain – A Journal of the Arts. Great publication. A wonderful honor. Coming to grips with this new gig, the rejecting and accepting–mostly rejecting, I scribbled the bit below. Part I. How do I explain this fiction editor thing? Think of me as Rick […]
