Novelist to speak at Cal U.
Novelist and short-story writer T.C. Boyle will speak at 7 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Convocation Center on California University of Pennsylvania’s main campus in California.
Boyle will read from his recent work and respond to audience questions. Admission is free.
A reception with the author will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. before the reading in the south wing of the Convocation Center. The cost for the reception is $50 and includes hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. For reservations, contact Kim Vanderlaan at vanderlaan@calu.edu.
Boyle has written more than a dozen novels and numerous short stories, including “The Road to Wellville,” “The Inner Circle,” “The Human Fly,” “Talk Talk,” “The Women,” “The Harder They Come” and “The Terranauts.”
He has received numerous awards and honors, highlighted by the PEN/Faulkner Prize for best novel of the year (“World’s End”), the PEN/Malamud Prize for short stories (“T.C. Boyle Stories”), and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France (“The Tortilla Curtain”).
His short stories have appeared in major American literary magazines including “The New Yorker,” “Harper’s,” “Esquire,” “The Atlantic Monthly,” “Playboy,” “The Paris Review,” “GQ” and “Granta.” His fiction has been translated into dozens of foreign languages and has inspired multiple film adaptations.
Originally from upstate New York, Boyle earned degrees from the State University of New York at Potsdam and the University of Iowa. He is a distinguished professor of English emeritus at the University of Southern California, where he began teaching in 1978. He lives with his wife near Santa Barbara, Calif.
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