"Three Minutes or Less." "A a
little piece on my heroes that was transcribed from a playful talk I gave
at a PEN/Faulkner gala back in the dim mists of the last century (1991,
I believe)." Paris
Review 153 (Winter 1999-2000).
Full
Boyle. T. C. Boyle's essay for amazon.com tracing his evolution
as a reader and writer.
"That was the century that was." Gentlemen's
Quarterly 69:12 (December 1999): 183-90. A range of commentators,
including John Updike, James Ellroy, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Lorrie Moore,
discuss the year that they regard as the best year of the 20th century.
If I Were
President.George 3:2 (February 1998): 120.
A satirical response to a serious question.
Essay: To
the World at Large. E-mail sent to various online booksites in
which the author discusses his three favorite writers: Evelyn Waugh; Gabriel
Garcia Marquez; and Flannery O'Connor. 1998.
"The Best Books of 1996." Los
Angeles Times Book Review 29 December 1996: 11.
"The Hierarchy of Light." Architectural
Digest 48 (May 1991): 90+
This
Monkey, My Back. THE
ELEVENTH DRAFT: Craft and the Writing Life from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Frank Conroy, editor. New York: Harper Collins, 1999. ISBN
0062736396. (Kirkus Reviews, 9/1/99) T. Coraghessan Boyle's contribution
tells a tale about his only one-act play: "It was called The Foot, and
it dealt with a couple grieving over the loss of their child to the jaws
of an alligator; all that remained of him was his left foot, dressed in
a tennis shoe, and set in the
middle of the coffee table like
a holiday centerpiece."
Shinder, Jason, Editor. The
First-Book Market. Includes contributions from many of our most
distinguished contemporary writers such as Terry McMillan, T.C. Boyle,
Susan Cheever, and Robert Pinsky on how they got their first books published
and the insights they've gained. (Associated Writing Programs, Fairfax,
Virginia, $13.50)