Roger Boylan
I am an American writer raised in Ireland, France, and Switzerland. I attended the University of Ulster and the University of Edinburgh and lived in New York City for many years, teaching myself the art of writing. My novel Killoyle is published by Dalkey Archive Press. A sequel,The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad, is published by Grove Press, New York. German versions of both novels have been critically and commercially successful The third volume in the Killoyle trilogy, The Maladjusted Terrorist, was published in German in 2006 and is forthcoming in English. The entire trilogy was reissued in German in 2007 by Kein & Aber, Zurich.
My latest novel, The Adorations, deals with historical and religious themes and is forthcoming as an online publication.
I am a regular contributor to Boston Review and to the online automotive review Autosavant. My stories and articles have appeared in many journals and reviews, including The New York Times Book Review, The Literary Review, The Scotsman, The Texas Observer, The Austin American-Statesman, and Scrivener. I am working on a novel titled Ohiowa impromptu.
Latest Articles
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King Bongo: A Novel of Havana
A review of Thomas Sanchez's gripping 2003 thriller, set in Havana in the glamorous, corrupt, halcyon days of 1957, two years before Castro took over.
Dec 12, 2011
- Roger Boylan
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Romulus Augustulus, Man of Mystery
What do we really know about figures from the past? About, for example, Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of Rome? Not much. It's a novelist's boon.
Jan 31, 2011
- Roger Boylan
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All the World's A Novel
Critic Steven Moore thinks the novel as a form is as old as written records, and has written an extraordinary book detailing the great novels of the past.
Jan 26, 2011
- Roger Boylan
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