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THE REDNECK WAY OF KNOWLEDGE: REDUX
Novelist and journalist, often called a Southern writer. My writing is funny, smart, and often quite moving.
By Blanche Boyd
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THE REDNECK WAY OF KNOWLEDGE: REDUX
RUBY, 1999
an excerpt from Children of Nod
Jun 9, 2025 • Blanche Boyd
My Former Students, and Me
Having a literary legacy I didn't write.....
Apr 11, 2025 • Blanche Boyd
GOLDILOCKS: A HAIR-RAISING SEQUEL
May 28 • Blanche Boyd
TERMINAL VELOCITY
- a glimpse of what happened to some young women during the sexual revolution of 1960s/70s
May 2, 2025 • Blanche Boyd
THE REVOLUTIONARY ORGASM
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WHY I WRITE:
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A ROCK CRITIC, BRIEFLY
...when I knew nothing about music.....
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BULLET IN THE BRAIN by Tobias Wolff
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THE DEAD GOD PROBLEM
and yes, that is a funny line.....
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THE POPE IN YANKEE STADIUM, 1979
......He waved at the crowd like a homecoming queen.....
Dec 20, 2024 • Blanche Boyd
ROCKY FOR A DAY
....the "new" journalism in 1978.....
Dec 13, 2024 • Blanche Boyd
"THE TAIL END", by Sloane Crosley
from the New Yorker, August 2024
Dec 6, 2024 • Blanche Boyd
ZEN AND THE ART OF PARTYING, 1979
....2 years later I got clean and sober but that's another story.....
Dec 2, 2024 • Blanche Boyd
HAPPY ENDINGS, by Margaret Atwood
..........What's a story anyway, and how do writers do it?
Nov 29, 2024 • Blanche Boyd
AUNT THELMA AT THE ROCKETTES
.....and how I learned a slow respect.....
Nov 25, 2024 • Blanche Boyd
THE REDNECK WAY OF KNOWLEDGE
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DOROTHY ALLISON, Again
........and Revolutionary Sex.....
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