Daniel Robert Epstein: TC Boyle

fun stuff...i love articles where i have no idea who the person is..its an introduction to something new.

edit: I was wrong - HE took a swing at my friend Robert once for some reason or another.

[Edited on Nov 08, 2004 by googuse]

Seconded, and now I something new to read!

I got introduced to TC Boyle's work on a camping trip over the summer. It's really good stuff, particularly his short stories. He's been around for a long time, but apparently just off my radar. Anyway, worth picking up some of his shorter fiction even if you don't like the novel

I got introduced to TC Boyle's work on a camping trip over the summer. It's really good stuff, particularly his short stories. He's been around for a long time, but apparently just off my radar. Anyway, worth picking up some of his shorter fiction even if you don't like the novel

TC gives a good book talk. If you get the chance it's worth going.

I've only read "World's End" which is an older work of his. It was dense "historical fiction" set in the Hudson River Valley in three different time periods. Cool stuff. Complex stories with history built in. I just hope the historical part is accurate, because I wouldn't really know the difference. It was set in the present, the labor movement years and the time of the Dutch settlers. Each period had as its principle character one member of a long family tree and each character went against the grain in his own time. Anyway, cool, dense, intellectual. It would seem to recommend the Kinsey book.

haha, great interview! he's a funny guy, something i wouldn't have guessed from reading a couple of his books, though the tortilla curtain is a modern american great.