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

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: March 9, 2010

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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Mary Karr’s LIT

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: January 2, 2010

I received Mary Karr’s LIT for Xmas and fell deeply into it over the course of the next several days.  And when I was done I had that wonderful, awful sense of completion and bereavement, knowing that there was no more. So immediately started re-reading it. One of the best books I’ve read this [...]

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History Channel Episode on JB to air 12/30

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: December 22, 2009

There will be a History Channel episode on Dec. 30, at 11 PM that addresses the life of one Professor Jennifer Finney Boylan. The series is “Strange Rituals” and the episode is “Beyond Sex.” This was taped two years ago– but I remember the producer, Deborah Blum, being very smart and thoughtful.
Here’s [...]

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On Anxiety & Writing: from Dani Shapiro

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: December 4, 2009

Dani Shapiro ’s blog about writing, “Moments of Being,” is one of the smartest destinations in the blogoverse.  Here’s the opening of a piece about Anxiety, and how it is the enemy of good work:
“Of all the mental states one might find oneself in when sitting down to write, anxiety may very well be the [...]

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Thirty Seconds Over Wesleyland

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: November 6, 2009

1. Woke up this morning amid the green fields of Yale University, where I’d performed my one-woman show, “The Porcupine Woman” the night before, and then went out with friend & writer Dani Shapiro, and husband Michael.  Drink, as they say in Ireland, was taken.
2. Got in the car and drove to my alma mater, [...]

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A week in October

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: October 12, 2009

Well, with the Red Sox collapse complete, it’s time to head out on the road for two short talks this week. I hope anyone who’s interested in hearing me tell the same old jokes will consider coming on out. I’ll be doing a mix of new and old material at these two [...]

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If I had a Hammer: on Peter, Paul, and Jenny

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: October 8, 2009

I know this is last month’s news, but it’s funny to me how moved I was to hear of the death of Mary Travers. I gotta be honest and tell you I hadn’t hauled out any Peter, Paul & Mary records for, oh, about a jillion years. Probably the last time they [...]

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Star of the Day: 10/25/69

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: October 4, 2009

The dark star of the day comes from this concert at Winterland, performed just a few days shy of forty years ago.  A nice, meditative, somber-at-times version, that gives way to a particularly joyful development about halfway through. To partake of these licks,  you’ll want to hit the play button on the player below, [...]

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The Country of the Two Headed Woman

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: October 3, 2009

© 2009 Jennifer Finney Boylan
The weather in Maine for the last two weeks has been a little schizophrenic, gorgeous autumn sunshine alternating with grey, cold days that prefigure the darkness ahead.   Still, there are times when that’s just the way we like it—too much beautiful weather tends to make people a little full of themselves, [...]

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from the Powell’s Books blog… Eight odd questions for JFB…

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | Published: October 1, 2009

Powell’s Books is one of my favorite independent bookstores in the country. They did this deranged Q&A with me a little while ago in the run-up to my reading in one of their stores.   You can, and should, visit their blog here.
Jennifer Finney Boylan is Professor of English at Colby College and the [...]

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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."