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Jenny B. at Kendall Square Cinema this Saturday, March 13

I’ll be introducing the film PRODIGAL SONS this Saturday night at the Kendall Square Cinema in Boston at 7 PM. After the film I’ll interview one of its subjects, Kimberly Reed, who will also be on hand to talk about the film. Kimberly was the subject of an Oprah Winfrey program last month. [...]

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New appearances for 2010…

A few dates for 2010 are becoming firmer, including three or four this very month of March.
March 4:  Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT appearing in an Anthropology class (not open to public)
March 5: Portland, ME: TransForming Wellness Conference, keynote speaker (University of Southern Maine), Payson Hall– 4:30 PM
March 13:  Kendall Square Cinema, will introduce the [...]

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See what the boys in the backroom will have

My philosophy of life, in a nutshell:

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James Boylan Live at Wesleyan University, April 1980

In April of 1980, young James Boylan played the West College Coffeehouse at Wesleyan University.  The evening consisted of a bunch of original tunes, a couple of Fairport Convention covers, and a wide range of strange jams, non-sequiters, and complete nonsense.  Boylan performed on piano, concertina, and electric autoharp.
Now, thirty years later, the original [...]

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On Salinger, and the public life of writers

This piece of mine, written Friday, appears on today’s (Monday) op/ed page of the New York Times.

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by Jennifer Finney Boylan
THE national bereavement over the death of J. D. Salinger provided a strangely public moment in the career of a writer who’d become best known, in recent years, for his reclusiveness. There [...]

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On heading north, from Stuart Little by E.B. White

“Which direction are you headed? [the repairman] asked.
“North,” said Stuart.
“North is nice,” said the repairman. “I’ve always enjoyed going north. Of course, south-west is a fine direction, too.”
“Yes, I suppose it is,” said Stuart, thoughtfully.
“And there’s east,” continued the repairman. “I once had an interesting experience on an easterly course. Do [...]

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the son of the invisible man

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the hot dog factory

Hilarious and amazing.

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Health Care Bills: Explained by Adorable Puppy.

Found on Andrew Sullivan’s blog at the Atlantic. An adorable puppy explains what the Health Care Bills actually do.

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The Naked and the Confused by Kate Roiphe

Kate Roiphe writes about changing attitudes about sex in the new generation of male writers.  From the NYT Sunday Book Review, January 3, 2010.

For a literary culture that fears it is on the brink of total annihilation, we are awfully cavalier about the Great Male Novelists of the last century. It has become popular to [...]

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    Jenny Boylan's eleventh book, FALCON QUINN AND THE BLACK MIRROR, will be published by HarperCollins in May 2010.

  • PROFESSOR JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN is the author of ten 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 a documentary on CBS News' 48 Hours. 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; starting in 2010, she will also be the Hoyer-Updike Distinguished Writer at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

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  • Blog Archive

  • The Boylan Family, fall 2007

    IMG_0181 "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."