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from the Franklin County Bulldog: JB at DDG Bookstore 7/13

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: June 24, 2010

This piece appears in today’s Daily Bulldog. You can read it in its original context here.
FARMINGTON – On July 13 national bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan will be coming to Farmington to share her sensational new Young Adult Fantasy, Falcon Quinn and The Black Mirror. The Falcon Quinn series mark a new chapter for the [...]

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The Writers’ Mise en Place

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: June 15, 2010

Facebook friend (and New Yorker writer) Susan Orlean is up at the Macdowell Colony, I think, if I’m following the “updates” properly… Mcdowell being one of those places where writers go to be surrounded by absolute quiet and to focus on their work. This got me thinking about my own writing-space, which is funny [...]

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Postcard from Maine

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: June 13, 2010

Down at the town wharf, eatin lobstah rolls, watching the fishing boats go out. We nipped into the Harraseeket lobster shack while waiting for Seans last soccer game to start.

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On waffles and waffling. And the heart. And writing. And waffles.

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: May 30, 2010

This post was written for the Inside Colby blog by my student, Annelise Wiersema. It probably speaks for itself.
Waffling and Writing
Annelise Wiersema ‘10 on November 17, 2009
First, Jenny put down the eggs and milk on the seminar table. Our class stared at her, waiting for the analogy. Jenny Boylan’s a fairly eccentric – and, [...]

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On Salinger, and the public life of writers

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: February 1, 2010

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

Raise High the P.R. Blitz
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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Holiday greetings from the boylans

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: December 16, 2009

(Postscript: thirteen has been a kind of amazing year for sean, my accompanist in this piece. By way of contrast, you could check out what he looked and sounded like only one year ago, in the same piece of argle-bargle generated for xmas 08. And Zach, seated to my left [...]

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An Xmas Memory: The Night Visitor

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: December 3, 2009

By Christmas 1966—the year of the great snowstorm–my Uncle Al had disappeared.  No one knew what had become of him– whether he’d finally fallen in love, or if he’d been overwhelmed by one of the deep despairs that plagued him throughout his life, or if he’d finally run into trouble during his endless travels throughout [...]

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“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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Boylans on Oprah

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: August 10, 2009

The Oprah show that my family and I were on last spring re-runs today, Monday, I believe. You could check it out if you wanted.
The good news is that we were among “Oprah’s Most Memorable Guests.” The bad news is that the other “memorable’ guests included lying Ted Haggard, the Texas Polygamist [...]

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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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    Jenny Boylan's eleventh book, FALCON QUINN AND THE BLACK MIRROR, now on sale from HarperCollins!

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  • PROFESSOR JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN is the author of eleven 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; starting in 2010, she will also be the Hoyer-Updike Distinguished Writer at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. She is currently 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, 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."