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T C Boyle's Reading List

The author, most recently, of "The Harder They Come" is mad about nature writing: "I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants."

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By the Book: T C Boyle (2015)

NYT By the Book column (2015-03-24).

Source: www.nytimes.com

Cover of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr · Buy on Amazon
"John Lahr's biography of Tennessee Williams, which is wonderfully entertaining."
The Tree Where Man Was Born
Peter Matthiessen · Buy on Amazon
"Matthiessen's great gift was to bring lyricism and enchantment to his nature descriptions, paying out his adventures and lighting up the world for his chair-bound readers."
Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen · Buy on Amazon
""Far Tortuga" … his masterwork."
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · Buy on Amazon
"Gabriel García Márquez, hands down. It was he who showed me a whole new way of seeing … in his great novels, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold.""
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Gabriel García Márquez · Buy on Amazon
"It was he who showed me a whole new way of seeing … in his great novels, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold.""
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The Complete Stories
Flannery O'Connor · 1971 · Buy on Amazon
"Sorry, but this is a three-way tie: "The Complete Stories" of Flannery O'Connor, "The Stories of John Cheever" and Robert Coover's "Pricksongs and Descants.""
The Stories of John Cheever
John Cheever · Buy on Amazon
"Cheever's monument to time and place — and the grace of light — is a collection I keep coming back to for solace as the long years winnow down."
Pricksongs and Descants
Robert Coover · Buy on Amazon
"Coover's erudite, hilarious, mythopoeic stories are the very ones that provoked me to start writing my own."
Light in August
William Faulkner · Buy on Amazon
"For me, a thrilling read is Faulkner's "Light in August" or Coetzee's "Disgrace.""
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Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee · Buy on Amazon
"For me, a thrilling read is Faulkner's "Light in August" or Coetzee's "Disgrace.""
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The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014 · Buy on Amazon
""The Sixth Extinction," by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin (and the more recent book of the same title by Elizabeth Kolbert). We are in deep trouble as a species."

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