Category Archives: Jennifer Finney Boylan

“and drunk the milk of Paradise…”

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: September 30, 2009

A late breaking Thursday-morning update… alert readers have written to me pointing out that clearly the creature pictured next to me is actually the THING, not the HULK, a distinction so obvious I’m mortified to have failed to comprehend it.  Thing, all rocky;  Hulk, green.  The Times regrets the error ….and to be serious for [...]

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Breaking Up With Myself

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: August 4, 2009

I wrote the following very short entry for the Penguin Blog in support of my story, “Trans,” in the anthology LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD, which is about broken hearts and breakups. The entry I post herewith; the blog itself you can visit here, if you want, and read more from the other authors [...]

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“Love” launch party at Housingworks…

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: July 29, 2009

The launch party for Love is a Four Letter Word at Housingworks ROCKED. With Dan Kennedy hosting, tantalyzing story excerpts from Wendy McClure, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Maud Newton, and Amanda Stern. Plus saw friend and NYer cartoonist Emily Flake,collection editor Michael Taeckens, and Galleycat’s Ron Hogan, and all the proceeds go to AIDS research & support. [...]

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First look at the cover for FALCON QUINN and the BLACK MIRROR

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: July 23, 2009

Okay, so check out the cover of FALCON QUINN and the BLACK MIRROR, coming from HarperCollins in summer of 2010. (Amazing to me what a long lead time there is in Young Adult Books.).  Anyway, this is by legendary illustrator Brandon Dorman, who’s done a ton of great work– most famously, perhaps, for the GOOSEBUMPS [...]

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Love is a Four Letter Word

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: June 7, 2009

True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts…  Coming in July The anthology contains a new JB story, “Trans,” also excerpted any day now in Salon.com. And check out the Launch Party and reading in New York this July on the appearances page.  This heartbreaking flash animation, by the way, is by the amazing [...]

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Seattle, 3/20/09: "My Avatar"

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: March 23, 2009

Well, the piece rocked. This is going to be a quick summary, as I’m now back on crash deadline for the new book, but the event in Seattle was life-changing for me, and not only because i got to share the stage with two very cool performers and writers, Vikram Chandra and Christa Bell. INtegrating [...]

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Jenny Boylan nominates Randy Newman, American composer, for Man of the Hour

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: February 2, 2009

Jenny Boylan’s Man of the Hour for February 2nd, 2009 is American composer Randy Newman. Born on November 28, 1943, Newman has written great rock and roll tunes, not to mention providing the scores for dozens of films. My favorite aspect of Newman’s work is the way he assumes a persona other than his own [...]

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MAN OF THE HOUR for January 4, 2009: BUSTER KEATON

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: January 4, 2009

Jenny Boylan’s MAN OF THE HOUR for January 4, 2009 is Buster Keaton, American actor and director, a.k.a. “The Great Stone Face.” Born October 4, 1895, his career lasted into the early 1960s, with a cameo in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.” But his greatest films are the early silents of the 1920s, [...]

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Speak No Evil.

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: January 1, 2009

In this lovely image, Jennifer Finney Boylan contemplates the wisdom of keeping one’s mouth shut, and wonders whether it would be better if she began to sing at the top of her lungs. This is also a good occasion to remember the story of Bob Dole, who allegedly saw Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Gerald [...]

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  • 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."