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JFB in NYT: We Want Cake, Too.

This piece appeared on the op/ed page of the New York Times on Friday, August 12, 2011.  It was the second of a series of Friday columns I wrote while substituting for David Brooks, a substitution which is itself an interesting thought: me, for him, and which I imagine gave conservatives nationwide a chance to [...]

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Geeks Guide to the Galaxy interviews JFB

Here’s a podcast hosted by two writers, John Joseph Adams & David Barr Kirtley. Their copy runs: Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror, joins us this week on io9′s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast to talk about literal and metaphorical monsters, and growing up transgender. Falcon Quinn book cover [...]

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JB interview via online stream…

I appeared today (5/25/10)  on a show called Chez Laura.  I didn’t know anything about this show other than that the host, Laura Lavigne, billed herself as a “life coach,” but the resulting interview was kind of a gas, sort of a look back at the gender memoirs I wrote in the 2000s and a [...]

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JB interview with School Library Journal!

The amazing Betsy Bird posted this truly remarkable interview with me on the School Library Journal blog today: SBBT Interview: The Incomparable Jenny Boylan  by Elizabeth Bird I don’t often host folks who’ve appeared on Oprah, Larry King, The Today Show, and a Barbara Walters Special (just to name a few).  Few of the authors I speak to [...]

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New JFB book, FALCON QUINN AND THE BLACK MIRROR. Pub date: May 15!

All eyes on Falcon Quinn, as pub date for the first book in this new YA series arrives.  There is a whole new site supporting the book, including the first chapter, a list of the characters, a “bonus” chapter, and the like. Falconquinn.com was designed by Betty Crow (who also designed JB.net).  There’s a lot [...]

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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

    2036947979_34bfbec240 August, 2002.
  • 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."