21. BookPage Interview T. coraghessan boyle had recently moved to Montecito, California, and was workingon his sixth novel, The Tortilla Curtain, when he came across an article in http://www.bookpage.com/9802bp/tcboyle.html

Look who's talking in BookPage Bob Adams Jo Ann Beard John Berendt Larry Bond ... Michael Connelly Pat Conroy Michael Crichton Annie Dillard John Dufresne Dorothy Dunnett Umberto Eco Lolis Eric Elie Nicholas Evans Richard Ford Carlos Fuentes Diana Gabaldon Tipper Gore Katherine Graham ... Elizabeth McCracken Jay McInerney Walter Mosley Han Nolan Kem Nunn Robert B. Parker Brenda J. Ponichtera Annie Proulx Mario Puzo Anna Quindlen ... Laura Zigman Children's Authors Mary Chapin-Carpenter Caroline B. Cooney Paula Danziger David Diaz ... Gary Paulsen February 1998 Turning fact into fiction Review by Laura Reynolds Adler T. Coraghessan Boyle had recently moved to Montecito, California, and was working on his sixth novel, "The Tortilla Curtain," when he came across an article in the newspaper: "A Local Curiosity: The McCormicks." It was the same McCormicks that the 49-year-old author had read about in a book on the grand estates of the area. That is, Stanley McCormick, son of the inventor of the reaper, heir to a fortune, and a paranoid schizophrenic and sexual maniac. And Katherine Dexter, scientist, suffragette, and Stanley's loyal and heroic wife, who continued to love him though he was forbidden all contact with women, including and especially her, from 1908 to 1928. Boyle has written a dark and tender novel about Stanley and Katherine entitled "Riven Rock." With its ripe, poetic language and idiosyncratic humor, "Riven Rock" could be the work of no one but Boyle, but it is less satirical and more heart-rending than his previous offerings, an emotionally charged novel by one of our finest enchanters.

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23. Ecstasy In A Frog Pond: T. Coraghessan Boyle boyle, T. coraghessan. “Hopes Rise.” Without A Hero. NY Viking Penguin, 1994.2540. (The short story was first published in Harper’s, March 1991). http://members.tripod.com/~ElizBrunner/Scholar/SublimeFrogs.html

Get Five DVDs for $.49 each. Join now. Tell me when this page is updated Ecstasy in a Frog Pond: T. Coraghessan Boyle and the Sublime Written by Elizabeth Brunner, 1996, for Literary Theory class at Cal Poly under Professor Larry Inchausti "Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream." John Cheever “I swear a mouse is proof enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.” Walt Whitman With our lives gone stale and our world quickly approaching an expiration date, we victims of technological numbing crave the sublime, crave any experience of intensity. Responding to both the despondency and the absurdity of modern American life, contemporary author T. Coraghessan Boyle slams his readers awake with tension-filled prose. Despite that bohemian black-leather smirk on book jackets, Boyle builds transformative and political messages into his bizarre, often dark, fiction. In the unforgettable short story “Hopes Rise,” Boyle juxtaposes environmental disaster with the life-force chorus of breeding frogs, producing a moment of deliberate sublimity. Although writing in the third century, Longinus provides a definition of the sublime powerful enough to illuminate text centuries later in our jaded age. Certainly we need the sublime now more than ever; we need to be exalted, elated, and ecstatic. As Longinus describes, “the soul is raised by true sublimity, it gains a proud step upwards...” (60). The sublime overpowers our reason and our senses, lifting us into a transformed state. In science, the sublimity process requires heating a solid into a gas and then condensing the vapor back into a purified solid form. Similarly, the literary sublime condenses meaning into passages of such “extraordinary genius” and beauty that the reader is purified by a quantum leap in understanding (56).

24. Books By T. Coraghessan Boyle Books by T. coraghessan boyle. You may browse this author by titleor by publication date. 60 titles (showing 120) After the Plague http://www.allbookstores.com/browse/Author/Boyle, T. Coraghessan

Search By: Keyword Title Author ISBN Browse: Choose a subject: Art Children's Books Christian Books History Gardening Horror Mystery Oprah Book Club® Photography Reference Romance Science Science Fiction Sports Technology Travel Art Children's Books Christian Books History ... Store Directory Books by T. Coraghessan Boyle You may browse this author by title or by publication date 60 titles (showing 1-20) After the Plague : And Other Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle Hardcover - September 2001 List price: $25.95 After the Plague by T. Coraghessan Boyle Audio - Unabridged List price: $72.00 After the Plague : And Other Stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle Paperback - December 2002 List price: $14.00 Best of Playboy Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut T. Coraghessan Boyle Roald Dahl Tom Robbins ... Jane Smiley Audio - January 1996 - Unabridged List price: $16.95 Best of Playboy Fiction by Michael Crichton T. Coraghessan Boyle Frederick Forsyth Joseph Heller ... Donald Westlake Audio - January 1996 - Unabridged List price: $16.95 Best of Playboy Fiction by T. Coraghessan Boyle John Collier Billy Crystal Joyce Carol Oates ... David Foster Wallace Audio - January 1997 - Unabridged List price: $16.95

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27. New York State Writers Institute - T Coraghessan Boyle T. coraghessan boyle. (photo Pablo Campos), February 28, 2003 (Friday) 400pm Reading (ONLY) Recital Hall Performing Arts Center UAlbany, Uptown Campus. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/boyle_tc.html

"America's most imaginative contemporary novelist" Newsweek T. C oraghessan B oyle (photo: Pablo Campos) February 28, 2003 (Friday) 4:00 p.m. Reading (ONLY) Recital Hall Performing Arts Center UAlbany, Uptown Campus T . C. Boyle 's newest novel, Drop City (March 2003), is set in 1970. The novel tells the story of a hippie commune in California whose members decide to relocate to the unforgiving wilds of Alaska. There, they face challenges that severely test their devotion to peace, free love and the simple life. According to the publisher, Drop City is neither a satire nor nostalgic look at the 1960s and its aftermath. It is a "surprising, rich allusive, and non-sentimental look at the ideals of a generation and their impact on today's radically changed world." "[Boyle is] one of the most inventive and verbally exuberant writers of his generation." New York Times Los Angeles Times Book Review states, "Boyle's prose is a presence, a litany, a symphony of words, a chorale of idioms ancient and modern, a treasury of strange and wonderful place names, a glossary of things, good food and horrendous ills." The Times Literary Supplement describes the author's style as "punctuated with fire-cracker metaphors, a showy extravagance with obscurities of language and an easy mediation between hard fact and invention."

28. T. Coraghessan Boyle T. coraghessan boyle Official web site. Excerpts/reader's guide, about the author,cartoons, photo gallery, message board, frequently asked questions, links. http://bookbeat.searchbeat.com/authors/boyle.htm

Amazon.com Jobs Metasearch Quick Searches! addresses area codes books cameras directions electronics email search europe maps int'l jobs jobs kitchen lawn and patio maps meta-search web movies movie times music news phone numbers software stocks tools and hardware toys traffic tv listings video games comparison shop family fashion gov't ... site map Enter your " City, State ", US Zip Code or ICAO Search Beat Shopping Publications Books ... Featured Authors T. Coraghessan Boyle Search: Books All Products Advanced Search author's works The Tortilla Curtain From the day of Delaney Mossbacher's accident on the canyon road, his life and that of Candido Rincon continue to collide. Though cultures apart, Candido's homelessness and Delaney's yuppie paranoia make their interactions tragic and inevitable. Boyle presents interesting characters to the listener... Read more T. C. Boyle Stories Skinny, earringed, satanically goateed, T. Coraghessan Boyle is the trickster figure of American letters. Part court jester, part holy fool, he slips in and out of various narrative disguises as it suits him. Nowhere is this more evident than in his short fiction, in which he bounces from... Read more Water Music Complex, funny, fascinating and imaginative; great adventure

29. T. Coraghessan Boyle February 26–March 5, 1998. 20 questions. T. coraghessan boyle.Interview by Justin D. Coffin. T. coraghessan boyle is such a deft http://www.citypaper.net/articles/022698/20Q.Boyle.shtml

search citypaper.net cover story news opinion arts ... Advertise with Us 20 questions T. Coraghessan Boyle Interview by Justin D. Coffin T. Coraghessan Boyle is such a deft conversationalist he probably could have given me an hour's worth of material without me even being there. Like much of his writing, his discourse tends to be playful, erudite and dark. Since the late '70s, he's published seven novels and more than 60 short stories. His first novel, Water Music , was a mock Victorian novel about a trip up the Niger River. He won the Pen/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End , which recounts 300 years in his native Peekskill, NY (called Peterskill The 49-year-old writer is surprisingly tall with tight, wiry red hair. Currently, he's on tour promoting his new novel, Riven Rock (Viking), a work of historical fiction (more history than fiction) about the marriage of Katherine Dexter (one of the first female graduates of M.I.T.) and Stanley McCormick (a schizophrenic who was heir to the McCormick fortune). It is set primarily in Montecito, CA, where Boyle resides. You're perceived as a literary hooligan. Do you think that persona plays out in your work?

30. Boyle, T. Coraghessan Comments/Inquiries ©New York University 19932003. boyle, T. coraghessan. Sex,Male. National Origin, United States of America. Era, Late 20th Century. Born,1948. http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/boyle721-au-.h

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 49th Edition-April 2003 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Authors Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Boyle, T. Coraghessan Sex Male National Origin United States of America Era Late 20th Century Born Awards PEN Faulkner Award Annotated Works The Road to Wellville

31. Boyle, T. Coraghessan The Road To Wellville Literature Annotations. boyle, T. CoraghessanThe Road to Wellville. Genre, Novel (475 pp.). http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/boyle1274-des

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 49th Edition-April 2003 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Authors Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Boyle, T. Coraghessan The Road to Wellville Genre Novel (475 pp.) Keywords Adoption Alcoholism Alternative Medicine Caregivers ... Women's Health Summary In the fall of 1907, Will and Eleanor Lightbody, a wealthy, neurotic couple from Peterskill, New York travel to Battle Creek, Michigan to immerse themselves in the routine of the famous sanitarium run by corn-flake inventor, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. They meet Charlie Ossining who is seeking his fortune in the fickle market of Battle Creek's breakfast food industry. The Lightbodys have just lost their infant daughter and Eleanor is taking Will to the "san" for the cure. An inveterate meat-eater with a sexual appetite, Will was addicted, first to alcohol, and then, to opium, after his wife spiked his coffee with an off-the-shelf-remedy for drink. At the sanitarium, they must occupy separate rooms, refrain from sex, and piously eat inflexible non-meat diets. Therapies include five daily enemas, exercises, "radiated" water, and an electrical "sinusoidal bath," which accidentally fries one of the residents. Kellogg is gravely disappointed in Will's inability to toe the "physiologic" line, but he is more deeply disturbed by his adopted son, George, whose chosen life on the street is a perpetual embarrassment.

32. T. Coraghessan Boyle T. coraghessan boyle. T. coraghessan boyle was born in 1948 and grewup in Peekskill, New York. He is a graduate of the State University http://www.rlc.dcccd.edu/annex/COMM/english/mah8420/BoylePage.htm

T. Coraghessan Boyle T. Coraghessan Boyle was born in 1948 and grew up in Peekskill, New York. He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Potsdam, and received his doctorate in nineteenth-century English literature from the University of Iowa in 1977. Since 1977, Boyle has taught creative writing at the University of Southern California. While in college, Boyle exchanged his middle name, John, for the unusual Coraghessan, the name of one of his Irish ancestors. Boyle is the author of Descent of Man Water Music Budding Prospects Greasy Lake World's End (1987, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction), If the River Was Whiskey East Is East The Road to Wellville (1993), which was made into a movie starring Anthony Hopkins, Without a Hero (1994), and The Tortilla Curtain . His work has appeared in major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic Monthly. Boyle lives with his wife, Karen, and their three children near Santa Barbara, California, in a house designed in 1909 by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Author: Matthew Henry Last Modified on: 04/03/99 Thanks for visiting. Email me and let me know what you think:

33. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: T. Coraghessan Boyle T. coraghessan boyle. But a while ago I was dragged kicking and screaming- to the novels and short stories of T. coraghessan boyle. http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-boyle-coraghessan.asp

www.tcboyle.com Interview - 11/2400 Past Interview - 1998 Past Interview - 1998 Books by T. C. Boyle DESCENT OF MAN WATER MUSIC BUDDING PROSPECTS: A Pastoral GREASY LAKE AND OTHER STORIES ... AFTER THE PLAGUE T. Coraghessan Boyle BIO Back to top. ARTICLE I've been avoiding contemporary male novelists for a number of years now, largely because I don't find their books interesting or relevant. Perhaps it's a reaction to the women's movement, but lately I've noticed that quite a few men seem to be engaged in what I call macho-writing. If they aren't writing techno-thrillers or slice-and-dice detective stories about women who have been beaten, raped and murdered, they seem to be using the pages of their novels to indulgently express their angst about impotence, growing older, losing their hair, or whatever. There are exceptions, of course, but they are few and far between. And rather than waste what small amount of time I have for reading trying to find the wheat amongst the chaff, I prefer to curl up with a good novel written by Jane Hamilton or Anne Tyler. But a while ago I was dragged - kicking and screaming - to the novels and short stories of T. Coraghessan Boyle.

34. Bookreporter.com - A FRIEND OF EARTH By T. Coraghessan Boyle A FRIEND OF EARTH T. coraghessan boyle Penguin Books SciFi FantasyISBN 0141002050. Read an Excerpt. As Robert Parker has his http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/0141002050.asp

Books by T. C. Boyle DESCENT OF MAN WATER MUSIC BUDDING PROSPECTS: A Pastoral GREASY LAKE AND OTHER STORIES ... AFTER THE PLAGUE A FRIEND OF EARTH T. Coraghessan Boyle Penguin Books ISBN: 0141002050 Read an Excerpt As Robert Parker has his Spenser, so does James Patterson have his Alex Cross. As Parker did, and is still doing, with Spenser, so does Patterson with Cross - make him better with every book and make every book better as well. ROSES ARE RED continues in that tradition. There are few living writers who could meld the dual terrors of nature run amuck and tragedy in one's waning years with such comic affluence and literary invention as the wondrously funny T. C. Boyle. A FRIEND OF THE EARTH, Boyle's latest, is yet another in his pantheon of achingly disturbing facts of life in our age that are just ripe for the comedic picking. He made good stead of dangerous winds, roiling rains, and an environment that is on the verge of total Biblical collapse - the world of 2025 is dismal - yet A FRIEND OF THE EARTH serves as a friendly cautionary fable of what we may expect should we choose not to mend our nasty worldly ways. Ty Tierwater, a quiet staid happy guy in the '80s and '90s - "the slow-rolling glacier of my old life, my criminal life, the life I led before I became a friend of the earth" - becomes part of an ecoterrorist organization named Earth Forever! His second wife becomes a slave to the cause, and his daughter a casualty of it (her name is Sierra, so you know she's in trouble); but after all is said and done - Ty does jail time, takes a job with a wacky rock star managing his personal zoo - suddenly, just when it seems he may fall into a rightfully deserved and timely death, his great love returns. And his world, like the world around him, turns topsy-turvy.

35. Review: 'Drop City' By T. Coraghessan Boyle meet and mate in T. coraghessan boyle's ninth novel, Drop City, spawning a strange,highly entertaining story that doesn't always live up to its promise. http://www.startribune.com/stories/385/3651997.html

news freetime travel homezone ... talk index book reviews talking volumes variety horoscopes mindworks minnesota youth news parenting ... taste archive stories photo reprints projects contact corrections feedback Review: 'Drop City' by T. Coraghessan Boyle Pamela Miller, Star Tribune Published February 23, 2003 Unlike elements meet and mate in T. Coraghessan Boyle's ninth novel, "Drop City," spawning a strange, highly entertaining story that doesn't always live up to its promise. When a 1960s California camp is shut down, the hippies who had inhabited it head north to Alaska, where they bond or spar with crusty residents and find their collective and individual characters brutally tested. It's as if Ken Kesey and Jack London had collaborated to tell a tale except that Boyle, a virtuoso storyteller, is derivative of no one. His whacko brilliance has given rise to a pile of black-humored gems, including "World's End" and "Water Music." "Drop City" is similar in style its many threads take a while to make a full-fledged yarn but not in tone: It's serious and nonsatirical. The writing is beautiful, but it's never pretty. "Drop City" scopes out two worlds with an unblinking eye. There's the hippie collective, with all its hopes and hypocrisies, and the Alaskan individualists, whose fierce, free ways lead them into geographical and psychological frontiers.

36. T. Coraghessan Boyle, América Translate this page T. coraghessan boyle América (Originaltitel ”The Tortilla Courtain”). Ausdem Amerikanischen von Werner Richter. Carl Hanser Verlag, München, 1996. http://www.matices.de/12/12rboyle.htm

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37. A Former Student Of T. Coraghessan Boyle TXC and TCB, T. coraghessan boyle. A few pictures of me with my mentor,author TC boyle. Visit his site at http//www.tcboyle.com http://home.nyc.rr.com/txc/tcb_fan20020425.html

TXC and TCB, T. Coraghessan Boyle A few pictures of me with my mentor, author T. C. Boyle. Visit his site at http://www.tcboyle.com Location: Barnes and Noble bookstore, Union Square, Lower Manhattan, NYC Date: Monday, September 24, 2001 Photo: Seth Madej Tom came to read from his new book of stories, After the Plague (Viking). He read the story "Killing Babies." Afterwards I stood in the autograph line (near the end) and had my picture taken with him. It was a rather somber evening as the events of September 11 were fresh in everyone's minds. In fact, the windows of the store faced south over Union Square, towards the site of the former World Trade Center. Hmm ... I don't look any better in this picture than in last year's picture (below). As a small side note, this is the same place I saw Joe Jackson reading from A Cure For Gravity, and told him I knew T. C. Boyle (who had given a blurb for the dust jacket) as he was autographing my copy. Mr. Jackson's publicist seemed quite interested in this fact. Location: WBAI-FM Studios, Wall St., Lower Manhattan, NYC

38. Links To Literature: T. Coraghessan Boyle Organized and annotated links to T. coraghessan boyle resources on the Internet.LINKS TO LITERATURE. GENERAL RESOURCES. NY Times T. coraghessan boyle. http://www.linkstoliterature.com/boyle.htm

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39. Los Angeles Magazine: Boyle's Life.(author T. Coraghessan Boyle)(Brief Article) T. coraghessan boyle'S FAVORITE ANIMAL is, of all things, the hyena, which explainswhy the loathsome creature makes its first appearance exactly five words http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1346/10_45/65644428/p1/article.jhtml?term=T. C

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