Remembering Kay Boyle
by Red Shuttleworth
“… a singer and a shouter for social justice, for fairness, for the dispossessed and the wounded.”
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Passion and Joy
By Andrew Popper At some point in Ian Franckenstein’s childhood (or so my father told me) he planned to grow up and go on the lecture circuit — to teach America that Frankenstein was...
“A Voyage to France” by Ian Frankenstein
This untitled document in Ian Frankesntein’s handwriting was read by the author at the Society’s American Literature Conference panel in 2023. It sets in motion time, memory, private and shared reimaginaings, and togetherness in...
Join us for the KBS panel session at the 2024 ALA Annual Conference, May 23-26, 2024, Chicago, IL
In the 19th year of its existence, the Kay Boyle Society will join at the American Literature Association 34th Annual Conference at The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603 for a...
Picture of Kay Boyle by Hsu Kai-yu
With thanks to Helen Whitson, former librarian at San Francisco State College and founder of the Strike Collection. Also see ‘On strike! Shut it down!’ An Interview with Helene Whitson on the San Francisco...
‘On strike! Shut it down!’ An Interview with Helene Whitson on the San Francisco College Strike and Strike Collection
The San Francisco State Strike was the longest academic student education strike in American education history. Kay Boyle, who was a member of the coordinating committee for the Faculty Organization for Responsibility in College...
In Memoriam Ian Franckenstein (1943-2024)
A beloved friend and faithful supporter of the Kay Boyle Society since its inception in May 2006, at the American Literature Conference in San Francisco, Ian Franckenstein passed away on Jan. 23rd, 2024 in...
CFP KBS at American Literature Association 35th annual conference
2024 – Chicago, IL, 23-26 May 2024 The Kay Boyle Society (https://kbs.hypotheses.org/) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2024 American Literature Association in Chicago, IL, 23-26 May 2024. The Kay Boyle...
Transatlantic Literary Women: ‘Looking for Kay Boyle, a Lost Member of the “Lost Generation,” in Paris’
December Tea with TLW: Anne Boyd Rioux on ‘Looking for Kay Boyle, a Lost Member of the “Lost Generation,” in Paris’ Wednesday 6th December, 5pm UK time If you’d like to join us, please...
The Teaching of Writing
An Essay by Kay Boyle Teenagers and students in their early twenties make teaching an endlessly exciting experience for me. Young people have a particular gift for reviving freshness of thought and language and...
Join us for the 34th ALA Annual Conference in Boston
In the 18th year of its existence, the Kay Boyle Society will join at the American Literature Association 34th Annual Conference at The Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116 Boston for...
Kay Boyle’s picture by George Platt Lynes in the online photography auction at the Dorotheum in Vienna
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Kay Boyle’s early novel sheds light on the literary history of the transatlantic modernist avant-garde
Year Before Last deserves to be rediscovered by students and scholars interested in modernist periodical culture and the literary history of the transatlantic avant-garde. An editorial and critical success story, the novel did much...
“Vulnerable Bodies in Works by Kay Boyle, Mina Loy, and Djuna Barnes” virtual panel session at 32nd ALA Conference, July 7-10, 2021
This panel aimed at discussing vulnerability in the works of Kay Boyle, Mina Loy, and Djuna Barnes with a view to fostering discussion and future collaboration. The first paper was given by Stamatina Dimakopoulou,...
“Kay Boyle Lives” virtual panel session at the 32nd ALA Conference, July 7 -10, 2021
The panel, chaired by Sandra Spanier, opened on a paper by Anne Boyd Rioux, Professor of English at the University of New Orleans and a specialist in American women writers, who is writing a...
