James
Boice was born in 1982 in Salinas,
California and grew up in northern Virginia.
The
Good and the Ghastly is his third
novel. His first two were the critically
acclaimed MVP
and NoVA.
His work has appeared in Esquire,
McSweeney’s,
Fiction,
Salt
Hill, and other publications. He
dropped out of college after three weeks to
be a writer. He lives in New York and writes
about pathological people.
THE MINUS
MAN, BY LEW MCCREARY, PUBLISHED IN THE
YEAR 1991 B.C., archeologists believe, is the
probably greatest American novel Owen Wilson
and I have both read. May 2011
MEMORABLE
CHARACTERS IN CONTEMPORARY American fiction are rare. The
instinct among today’s fiction writers seems
to be to go—vomit—likable.Maybe
all the news we read about the.…February
2011
I REMEMBER LAKE
STREET IN BRIGHTON, MA. 2005. I REMEMBER
back-to-back blizzards, White Hen Pantry,
walking my dog through the grounds of the
seminary across the street. I was living with
two waitresses, one of whom
was… January
2011
WHEN IT WAS
PUBLISHED IN 2009, Ablutions,
Patrick deWitt’s
incredibly good debut novel about a guy who
works in a bar in Hollywood, received reviews
that were positive but… October
2010
