“I
think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with
absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we
don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow
morning.” – T. C. Boyle
Born
in New York City on this date in 1948, Thomas Coraghessan Boyle is an
award-winning novelist and short story writer who focuses his writing on Baby
Boomers – their joys, appetites and addictions – on the ruthlessness and
unpredictability of nature and the toll human society sometimes unwittingly
takes on the environment.
The
author of 19 novels and more than 150 short stories, he won the PEN/Faulkner award
for World's End, a historical novel set in upstate New York. Among his other bestsellers are The Terranauts,
The Tortilla Curtain and his most recent, 2023’s Blue Skies.
Boyle’s
short stories regularly appear in major American magazines like The New Yorker and Harper’s and he has published a dozen
collections, his most recent – I Walk Between The Raindrops – in 2022. A much sought-after speaker, he said,“I love
performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.”
“I
read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of
being informed,” Boyle said, “and, as a
fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a
novel or story.”
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