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Jenny Boylan ๐Ÿฏ
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Author of 18 Books, MAD HONEY, co-authored w/ , out now! 22-23 Fellow at , Trustee, PEN America. Prof at Barnard. Opinions mine.
mainejenniferboylan.net/writing/books/Joined August 2008

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Everybody had a hard year Everybody had a good time Everybody had a wet dream Everybody saw the sunshine Oh yeah Everybody had a good year Everybody let their hair down Everybody pulled their socks up Everybody put their foot down HNY, you all. Love will prevail. Promise.
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My new doctor, in seeking to diagnose my endlessly elusive imbalance issues, today suggests I might have a โ€œridiculopathy.โ€ I said, yeah that sounds like something Iโ€™d get.
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Dear sir or madam: I wrote this on spec I know you will reject it but what the heck Also if you take it youโ€™ll treat me like shit, & pay me almost nothing, I donโ€™t mind a bit Youโ€™ll say to just rewrite it so itโ€™s actually worse But I need a break & I want to be a FREELANCE WRITER
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A book (co!) authored by a transgender woman has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 16 weeks now. But itโ€™s probably just a social contagion.
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First he lied about 9/11! AND THEN? Then he lied about his college! AND THEN? Then he lied about doing drag in Brazil!!! AND THEN? AND THEN? AND THEN? And then along came Jones Tall thin Jones Slow-walkin' Jones Slow-talkin' Jones Along came long, lean, lanky Jones
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How do you like being glammed up for TV, Professor? they asked. SO SPARKLY!!! I said, I still look like an English teacher. Oh, they said. We're sorry! Donโ€™t be sorry, I replied. To me, this IS sparkly. Also, thank you for the clouds.
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Early morning Manhattan, Ocean winds blow on the land. Movie-Palace is now undone, The all-night watchmen have had their fun. Sleeping cheaply on the midnight show, It's the same old ending - time to go. 1st day of classes for Professor Boylan Letโ€™s go
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"No one can 'turn' a child gay, in the same way that no one can 'turn' a child straight. What you can do is 'turn' someone from being a close-minded bigot & into someone more accepting of all the many different ways there are of being human."-
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Reading Dylanโ€™s book about the philosophy of song "Old Macdonaldโ€ฆ.ancient Barnard prophet, you know he's no fool. Cluck cluck here you canโ€™t escape the chickens of hell that call you from beyond the coop. E I E I O spells doom in the letters of your own nameโ€ฆ" And so on.
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This is the highest honor Iโ€™ve ever experienced: THE ANCHORED WORLD has been longlisted in the Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. I am absolutely floored by this news & humbled by the towering company in which my little book finds itself.
2023 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection longlist: Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo, Rainbow Rainbow by Lydia Conklin, Is This How You Eat a Watermelon? by Zein El-Amine, If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero, A Calm & Normal Heart by Chelsea T. Hicks, What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, The Anchored World by Jasmine Sawers, Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty, Manywhere by Morgan Thomas
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Remembering the great Jerry Blavat today, the greatest DJ ever. The voice of my childhood. Who brought us the Beatles? Who knew every doo-wop song ever? Who defined Philadelphia soul? The heart of WFIL? The geeter with the heater. The boss with the hot sauce. RIP.
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my work as a standards and ethics editor at popsugar/vox is my pride and joy. iโ€™m hugely proud of the mark iโ€™ve made on our brands over the last 5+ years. today, i was laid off with 7% of the company. so, hire me, i guess!
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Winter scenes at A hopeful elevator; a colleague's nameplate; us at the club in midtown before dinner and a show; and midtown in the distance through the grey mist, as seen from the Barnard faculty room high above Columbia and Morningside Heights.
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We saw "Leopoldstadt " last night. Iโ€™m still shattered. Tom Stoppard how I love you.
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