Roger Boylan
@BoylanRoger
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Novelist. Author of "KILLOYLE," "THE GREAT PINT-PULLING OLYMPIAD," and "THE ADORATIONS." Published by https://t.co/Jk3qCTbegN. https://t.co/5tSYigVZ7i
Joined September 2021
"What makes Boylan’s novel so brilliant is that it’s relatable. It conjures up early 20th century Paris and Vienna with superlative clarity while describing events and characters that are all entirely relevant." --Dante Pettapiece. Read it and see if you agree!
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New York Public Library main reading room, a sanctuary for me in my impoverished days as an apprentice writer.
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Katharine Hepburn in Venice during filming David Lean's "Summertime," 1955.
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A train on the Montreux-Oberland Bernois line at Montreux station, Switzerland.
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Sergei Rachmaninov playing the piano for his granddaughter Sophie, New York, 1927.
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Directors Andrei Tarkovsky, Orson Welles and Robert Bresson at Cannes, 1970s.
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Herbert von Karajan boarding his private plane at Salzburg airport, Austria.
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A Mercedes in the Dolomites in the Liège-Rome-Liège rally, 1956.
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Françoise Hardy as a tourist in London, 1960s. She became something of a pop phenomenon in the UK, even recording a French TV special there.
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A 1980 Ferrari 400i, one of the cars that were parked in my dream garage.
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Grandpa "pépé" reading Tintin aloud, and no doubt enjoying it as much as his grandson.
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