Kay Boyle and/in transition (1927-1938)
In Being Geniuses Together, Kay Boyle reminisces on the role the modernist magazine transition played in the early years of her expatriation in Europe. It was in transition, she says, that she first read...
Monthly Archive: June 2020
How Kay Boyle Became the Key to James Joyce’s Daughter and a First Novel
I first came across Kay Boyle when I was researching my first novel, The Joyce Girl. I knew very little about Boyle, but she turned out to be a vital source, one of the...
Kay Boyle at the Movies: The Art of Film and Boyle’s Short Fiction
War, political upheaval, and international intrigue are the context in which we read Kay Boyle’s short fiction, and readers of her work recognize the remarkable complexity of her portrayal of specific characters against a...
