Roger Boylan
@BoylanRoger
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Novelist. Author of "KILLOYLE," "THE GREAT PINT-PULLING OLYMPIAD," and "THE ADORATIONS." Others forthcoming.
Joined September 2021
"What makes Boylan’s novel so brilliant is that it’s relatable. It conjures up early 20th century Paris and Vienna with superlative clarity while describing events and characters that are all entirely relevant." --Dante Pettapiece. Read it and see if you agree!
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In 2008, Harry Rowohlt and I gave a reading from "Killoyle" at the Haus Gallus in Frankfurt (where, as I learned later, the camp staff of Auschwitz had gone on trial in 1964). The reading, in English and German, was well-attended, mostly because Harry was so well-known.
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Jorge Luis Borges, director of the National Library of Argentina from 1955 until 1973. This experience may have inspired his story "The Library of Babel," in which the universe is a vast library containing all possible books of a certain format.
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Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin toasting one another on the set of "Going in Style," 2017.
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Jerry Lewis visiting Alfred Hitchcock on the set of "To Catch a Thief," 1955.
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Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) and Captain Hastings (Hugh Fraser) in one of Agatha Christie's mysteries, "The Lost Mine," 1990.
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Passage des Panoramas, the oldest covered passage in Paris, built in 1799.
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Pablo Picasso giving drawing lessons to his children, Claude and Paloma.
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Peter O'Toole, dressed as Henry II, playing cricket on the French set of "The Lion in Winter," 1968.
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Professor Albert Einstein teaching a class at Princeton, 1940.
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Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro with director Martin Scorsese while making "Taxi Driver," 1976.
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Jorge Luis Borges in discussion with fellow author Ernesto Sabato at a cafe in Buenos Aires, 1975.
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Steve McQueen and James Garner talking to director John Sturges during filming "The Great Escape," 1963.
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