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Andrea Lee/T. Coraghessan Boyle Reading now available as download!FINALLY! For those of us in all parts of the globe (outside of NYC), an opportunity to join the virtual world and download what we've all been waiting for: the 2006 New Yorker Festival reading by Andrea Lee and T. Coraghessan Boyle at the Cedar Lake Dance Studios in Chelsea!Get yours here for $9.95 from Audible.com (length: 1 hour

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THANKS TO EDWARD CHAMPION'S return of the reluctant: a blog in tenebrous standing Click to listen (via MP3 - 30:13) to the bat segundo show #70 wherein Mr. Segundo and TCB discuss: "Multiple genders, Lawrence Durrell, on whether Talk Talk is a thriller, Anthony Burgess’ The Right to an Answer, Graham Greene, identity theft, Milton, paranoia, jail, Cassie Chadwick, biometrics, capitalist society,

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ANOTHER VIEW OF THE NEW YORKER READINGFrom Critical Mass, the blog of the national book critics circle board of directors, comes Heller McAlpin's response to "What has been Your Favorite Reading?"I had the good fortune to hear T. C[oraghessan] Boyle perform Friday night as part of The New Yorker Festival of Books. Boyle himself called it a performance, preferring that to the staid connotations of

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FIRST REPORT FROM THE NEW YORKER FESTIVAL 2006It's teeny weeny, but here is what zadeblog with links: cultural diary from NYC - arts, satire, events, the flitting mind had to say about making a fashionably late NYC entrance to the event:Something had possessed me at the end to watch the finale of footwork by all three from the aisle through binoculars. the better to make a swift exit and chase

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2005 T. Coraghessan Boyle New Yorker Festival Reading available as downloadIf you, like a lot of us, couldn't make it to last year's New Yorker Festival for TCB's reading with David Bezmozgis, now you can have it as a download through Audible.com. This 1 hour and 24 minute piece can be yours for only $9.95, yes, that's right, $9.95 -- or free when you join the AudibleListener plan.

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CORAGHESSAN COUNTDOWN TO NEW YORKER FESTIVAL!Yep, this is the week. Synchronize those timepieces. Only two more days until Mr. T. Coraghessan Boyle appears with Andrea Lee at the Cedar Lake Dance Studios in Chelsea. And, as of about ten minutes ago, Ticketmaster still had tickets available (anywhere from 1 to a maximum of 4) for T.'s appearance at the previously announced price of $16 + a

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Can it be? Tickets still left for T. Coraghessan Boyle reading at the New Yorker Fest?According to this September 22, 2006 post in The Gothamist, it was then! Our crystal ball is foggy due to all of this rain, so contact Ticketmaster your own damn self!

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GET YER NEW YORKER FESTIVAL DUCATS NOW!Yes, me duckies, this morning is the one you've been waiing for! Tickets go on sale at noon EDT on Thursday, September 7 for T.'s 9:30 pm Friday, October 6 "Fiction Night" appearance at Cedar Lake Dance Studios, 547 West 26th Street, New York, NY, and are available either through ticketmaster.com, at all ticketmaster outlets, or by calling tollfree

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TCB Chats with Washington Post ReadersLittle did we know, but apparently we were among those whose itty-bitty chat invites were lost in the mail a couple of months back. Oh, well, never mind, as one Emily Litella would have dismissed the omission. We're certain it was only an oversight. And now, on to the pertinent parts:Chinatown, Washington, D.C.: Hi. How do you pronounce "Coraghessan"?TCB:

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Me, oh, my, oh! Here we are, almost a year flown by again since the last Manhattan literary orgy referred to amongst we congnescenti as The New Yorker Festival. [And let me offer ye chicklets this little nibbin of advice: if you want to attend any of the events, make haste and get thee to a celly and buzz, buzz, buzz the number listed for tickets. They sell out in the blink of an eye, so have

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screenscribbler's favorite TCB tale:A new member of the official TCB messageboard tells this story -- another one for the archives![S]ome years ago, I was in Vroman's, and a man was asking a clerk for a book he had heard reviewed on the radio. He didn't know the title and said, "the author's name was something like 'Corrugated Doyle.'" The clerk was utterly clueless, so I leaned over the counter

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Funding at Iowa, and T. C[oragheassan] Boyle miscellanyWe found this July 16, 2006 post at Maud Newton's blog:John McNally remembers his years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Despite faculty members’ disdain toward his work, he ended up serving as T.C[oraghessan] Boyle’s research assistant.When I arrived at the Workshop in the fall of 1987 without funding, I was told by a second-year student (a

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My #6 favorite book of all time is Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle. So writes one Oxypoet on BillyBlog: Food for the Creative Imagination. Here is his opinion of our much-loved T. Coraghessan Boyle novel:My #6 favorite book of all time is Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle. You've heard me talk about Boyle before, way back in the infancy of BillyBlog here (to see a photo with me and the

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Perhaps the Palate is having an effect. You think?Our correspondent Jim in Pittsburgh writes to say: Your favorite T. Coraghessan Boyle was featured on my favorite radio show Studio 360. (Click here to download the audio interview.)He seems to be developing a bit of schizophrenic nomenclature since he is simultaneously referred to as both T. Coraghessan Boyle and TC Boyle in the same web blurb.

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Why restore Coraghessan? Because it's his brand, dammit!In a time when businesses just drool over having their advertising agency come up with the perfect brand identity for a product -- not to mention the millions of bucks they spend to pay for it -- along comes a boyo with Gaelic roots and the inspiration to give himself what would, in decades hence, become a most perfect brand for a writer.

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Infanticidi by T. Coraghessan BoyleWe can't be certain, but this book, with a cover illustration that simply must be someone's idea of The Black and White Sisters, appears to be Einaudi's Italian version of TCB's After the Plague and Other Stories under a different title, referring to his story Killing Babies. Does anybody out there know for sure?[NOTE: Confirmed today by TCB.]

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"Trust, But Verify": Russia Loves Coraghessan, Too!If you had the deciphering skills of our campaign's intelligence analysts, you would be able to see that the Russian publishing world prefers Coraghessan as well, as evidenced by this cover for East Is East!

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And Italia Joins In!Can you just imagine our excitement when we accidentally discovered that TCB's publisher in Italy, Einaudi, continues the tradition of using T. Coraghessan Boyle on his Italian book jackets? Just look right here to see the cover for Doctor Sex or as American audiences know it, The Inner Circle!

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A Day in the Life, Part 2: In Which Beth Meets a HeroRemember our comrade Beth, she of A Cup of Coffey fame? Well, last month she successfully made it to "The Dump" (where Margaret Mitchell wrote that little genre novel Gone with the Wind) and where T. Coraghessan Boyle was scheduled to make one of his rare as snow in summer Atlanta appearances and posted the most thorough account of his Q & A

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Unpronounceable Middle Name ManFrom the Doctor Fun series of cartoons by David Farley. Doctor Fun, R.I.P. 1993-2006.

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What do you think of this name change thing (no more Coraghessan)? There's an interesting back and forth about the demise of the much loved Coraghessan) moniker on this messageboard at Murray State (Kentucky) University. And whom might we know at Murray State? Might it be...Satan? But, nooooo! It's -- well, you know. Huey Newton.Huey Newton, 5/9/2001: Great to find another Boyle fan!What do

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"...in my world, he’s still T. Coraghessan Boyle."Beth of the blog A Cup of Coffey, recently posted an entry titled Mark, T.C., and Me in which she was all giddy about finally having a chance to meet TCB at a reception and reading in Atlanta. But from her posting, it is clear that she, too, is yet another reader who yearns to have the Coraghessan restored to his name!I know he goes by T.C. these

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Little Red Hen (not her real name) confesses!The Heroes and Villains column of bookmunch.com features this confession by Little Red Hen:Three books by T Coraghessan Boyle sat on my bookshelves for a year or more without being touched. I’d been working at his UK publisher Bloomsbury, doing work experience in their marketing department, trying to get a sniff at a publishing job and getting nowhere.

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Separated at Birth?With apologies to the late and lamented Spy magazine, my, oh, my, whatever do we have here? The Book of Joe, a blog by the self-styled 'World's most popular blogging anesthesiologist' (and we just adore self-styled personalities now, don't we?) has a new entry titled MorphWorld: Terry Goodkind into T. Coraghessan Boyle. It contains a rather eerie publicity shot of author

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Rare Coraghessan autograph!If the hype here is to be believed, there is a first edition of Water Music for sale for $550 from the Between the Covers Rare Books with a very special inscription. As stated on the website: Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law: "Hank: with love, T. Coraghessan Boyle." A nice association copy of the author's second book and first novel.

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So our first comment is by the one and only George Gleg, our intrepid correspondent from Greece, who goes by the nom de plume of a character in our much beloved T. Coraghessan Boyle book, Water Music. (We are sworn to secrecy not to reveal his true identity! And we keep our word, as you may find out.)

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Why Coraghessan? Because, well, it just sounds ever so much nicer with "Python" now, doesn't it?Ah, just listen to the sound of "Monty Python Presents T. Coraghessan Boyle's Water Music". Just rolls right off the tongue now, doesn't it? You just know there's a wild and raucous yarn there, waiting to be spun, and the Pythons are nothing if not the spinmeisters of the Western universe!After many

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More about changing his name to CoraghessanFrom In conversation by Daniel Asa Rose, Washington Post, July 16, 2006 DAR: Speaking of identity, can you tell me something about why you changed your middle name, when you were 17, from John to Coraghessan?TCB : Well, here too, I needed to establish that identity for myself. "Thomas John Boyle" was just too ordinary, like "Joseph David Smith." I hadn't

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Cold Comfort?Forgive me this aside, but as Tom's mother's people were named Post, would it be too much to wonder if somehow, in a more perfect world, we could dream of them somehow being distant relations of Robert Post's child of "Cold Comfort Farm"?

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In search of envoys...to help us spread the word of The International Restore Coraghessan Campaign! If you would like to participate as a writer on this blog as a representative of your country, please click here and tell us why. If you are chosen, you will receive a confirmation email with an invitation to join our blogging community.Remember, many are called, but few are chosen! We need you

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And in the beginning, there was Thomas John Boyle...And then, legend goes, when he turned 17 he changed his name to the more mystifying "Coraghessan". But, no, on the seventh day, he did not rest. He wrote, instead, stopping only at 2 pm to grab a sandwich and shoot some hoops. As the man himself says of his moniker, "It's Cor-AG-hessan, accent on second syllable. As you may know, this is an

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