Roger Boylan

"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!

@citynightcap It is.

@BoylanRoger Isnt it Nelsons Column?

Bicycles by Nelson's Pillar, O'Connell Street, Dublin, 1946.

@UWS_Parent @cringe_handle Great pic. Thanks!

@BoylanRoger @cringe_handle A more recent view: maps.app.goo.gl/LL3QFLCb9uihZP…

Manhattan skyline, 1950s.

@UWS_Parent @cringe_handle You could be right. My compass is out of whack.

@cringe_handle @BoylanRoger Looks like the shot was taken from Governors Island.

At the Reichenbach Falls with The Sherlock Holmes Society of London and camera crews for The Final Problem! An amazing morning!

bostonreview.net/articles/boyla… An essay of mine on the great but neglected J. C. Powys.

Samuel Beckett at his country house in Ussy-sur-Marne.

An important author of the interwar period and the mid-20th century.

1963 Ferrari 250 GT.

Morning coffee in Interlaken.

Words of wisdom from the great novelist Saul Bellow.

Paul Cézanne in his studio.

Director John Sturges discussing the upcoming dramatic motorcycle jump with Steve McQueen in "The Great Escape," 1963.

Dutch-born painter Willem de Kooning in his studio at East Hampton, Long Island, 1978.

Françoise Hardy and James Garner in John Frankenheimer's "Grand Prix," 1966.

Joan Didion and a Corvette Stingray.

Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, Arthur Miller, John Huston, Clark Gable, and Marilyn Monroe on location during filming "The Misfits," 1961.

Director Roger Vadim with the young Catherine Deneuve, who appeared in Vadim's "Et Satan conduit le bal" ("And Satan Calls the Turns"), 1962. She was also in "Le Vice et la Vertu" ("Vice and Virtue"), 1963, which Vadim directed.

Patrick Leigh Fermor being toasted on his birthday by his Greek neighbors at Kardamyli.

@alfredsimpson Good question.

@BoylanRoger American Airlines? Why did they switch to Northwest Airlines in the movie?

Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint boarding a flight at La Guardia for Chicago, where they would continue production on Hitchcock's "North by Northwest," 1959.