Posts tagged TC Boyle

The Right Side of Weird

The biggest reason I like T.C. Boyle is that he's just weird enough. Too often, authors concoct characters so strange or extreme they seem just like what they are ? fiction. Wild Child, Boyle's most…

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Who are you? Who, who

The “chase-scene-as-plot-structure” can be an exhausting thing. The chaos, the misunderstandings, the almosts, and coincidences. It can all decompose into a sloppy, cartoonish stink, racing to finish the book instead of reading and enjoying the…

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