Monthly Archives: April 2009

JB piece in NYT: "Maddy Might Just Work"

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: April 25, 2009

My story in the New York Times is up and online. The title they gave it is either, “Maddy Just Might Work,” or “The Other Side of My Boyhood.” The actual title is “The Sleepwalker.” More on this piece is in the post directly below. In the meantime, here’s the beginning of the story as [...]

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"The Book of Dads": & JB in NYT this Sunday, 4/26

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: April 24, 2009

An excerpt of mine from the forthcoming anthology, “The Book of Dads” appears in this Sunday’s New York Times. The Styles section runs a weekly column called “Modern Love,” and this week they’re running “The Sleepwalker,” which is about fathers, sons, daughters, and how being trans affects our families. It’s not the first time a [...]

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Us on Oprah

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: April 21, 2009

The Boylans appeared on Oprah today, “Most Memorable Guests.” You can read the online account of the appearance here. The main thing is that my kids spoke: they wanted to advocate on behalf of families like ours, and other children like them. They did great– as did Deedie/Grace, who shone. You can draw your own [...]

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18 Again

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: April 19, 2009

I’m back from a swing through Connecticut, which took me to Yale on Thursday, and back to my alma mater, Wesleyan University, on Friday. The reading at Yale University’s Sterling library was a good and interesting event for me. Instead of my standard readings (usually stuff from SNoT or ILTY), I read a new and [...]

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Why the Amazon de-ranking of GLBT books Matters

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: April 13, 2009

The online universe is alive this morning with news of Amazon.com’s move to remove sales ranks from so called “adult” themed books. This seems to mean gay and lesbian books, specifically. By the time you read this, this may all well be old news; my bunions tell me Amazon is going to fix this issue [...]

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Us on Oprah, again.

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: April 10, 2009

Today the Boylan family will tape, via Skype, a couple of segments for an upcoming Oprah Winfrey Show. This is an “update” show that will air either in May, or the summer. The agreement with Harpo asks that we not particularly talk about the show much at this point, but we’re hopeful it will go [...]

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Photos from "My Avatar"

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: April 3, 2009

Some photos from the My Avatar performance at Town Hall in Seattle. Photos by the sponsor, Richard Hugo House. Below you will see: Jennifer Finney Boylan with a remote mike; the Maldives playing live; the three writers: Vikram Chandra, Christa Bell, and Jenny B.; a nice one of my old friend Vikram (who also appeared [...]

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  • PROFESSOR JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN is the author of twelve books, including She's Not There: a Life in Two Genders, and I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted, both published by Random House. A novelist, memoirist, and short story writer, she is also a nationally known advocate for civil rights. Jenny has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Live with Larry King, the Today Show, the Barbara Walters Special, NPR's Marketplace and Talk of the Nation; she has also been the subject of documentaries on CBS News' 48 Hours. and The History Channel. She is a regular contributor to the op/ed page of the New York Times and Conde Nast Traveler magazine. Since 1988, she has been Professor of English at Colby College in Maine; in 2010, she was the Hoyer-Updike Distinguished Writer at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She has also served on the judging committee of the Fulbright Scholars, administered by the U.S. Department of State.

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  • Blog Archive

  • The Boylan Family, summer 2010

    DSC_0063 "You hang around our family, you learn all kinds of stuff."

  • Will Forte as Jennifer Finney Boylan on “Saturday Night Live”

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  • Jenny with Barbara Walters, December, 2008

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  • Jenny atop Maine’s Mount Katahdin

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  • Surrounded

    boylanWith President Clinton and Maine's Governor John Baldacci, fall 2006.

  • JFB and Edward Albee

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    Edward had been my teacher at Johns Hopkins in the winter of 1986. He visited Colby in fall, 2007. As we took our leave of each other, he kissed me on both cheeks and said, "We have done well. You and I."

  • Jenny and her teacher, the great John Barth

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    Jack was my professor at JHU when I did my thesis, back in the day. After many years, I can now confidently say I finally understand his definition of plot. Which is, of course, "the perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium."