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T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a
Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.

He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career, ...more

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In the wake of the Zoom interviews and travel in support of "No Way Home," I am looking forward to the publication of the new collection, "The End Is Only A Beginning," to be released in March, and occupying myself with the progress of the next novel, which opens a whole new mysterious arena for me every morning. I write by way of giving order to the world and discovering where any given story wil Read more of this blog post »

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T. Boyle made a comment on No Joke " I hear you, Chris and Paul. I feel as if I'm hanging on by my fingertips over a great yawning chasm and Trump keeps tying pianos to my back (as well a ...more "
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T. Boyle answered Audrey's question: I'm teaching a short fiction workshop soon and will ask participants to read a "A Death in Kitchawank" and "Chicxulub." Different writers find story ideas in different ways--some inspired by a single image or phrase, others by recurring themes or persistent what-if questions. I'm curious: where do your story ideas originate, either generally or in the case of these two pieces? Thx in advance from a longtime fan! For me, a story can originate from any source. With "Chicxulub" I'd long been contemplating our place in the universe and how tentative it is; the story of the accident with the daughter came from something I'd read in the newspaper, which makes the See Full Answer
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T. Boyle made a comment on The Breaks " Many thanks, Thomas, for the kind wishes. I've begun to misplace my crutches around the house, so that's a good sign. Meanwhile, I am perfecting the n ...more "
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T. Boyle made a comment on I'm Done! " 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. ...more "
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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.”
― T.C. Boyle

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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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tags: art, creation, fiction, stories, writers, writing

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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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