Robert Boswell

Dancing in the Movies

This book won the Iowa Prize for Short Fiction, as judged by Tim O'Brien. It was published by the University of Iowa press in January of 1986.

"Little Bear" appeared in Passages North.

"Dancing in the Movies" appeared in TriQuarterly.

"The Darkness of Love" appeared in Ploughshares.

"The Right Thing" appeared in the Antioch Review.

"Flipflops" appeared in the anthology High Infidelity.

"Kentucky" was not published elsewhere but became the first chapter to my first novel, Crooked Hearts.


University of Iowa Press site

Passages North site

TriQuarterly site

Ploughshares site

Antioch Review site

Published Works

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Story Collections
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

Published by Graywolf Press, April 2009
Living to Be 100

Published by Knopf in 1994. Paperback published by HarperCollins in 1995.
Dancing in the Movies

Selected by Tim O'Brien as the Winner of the Iowa Prize in 1985 Published by the University of Iowa Press in 1986. Paperback edition from New American Library published in 1987.
Nonfiction
The Half-Known World

Essays on the writing of fiction. Published by Graywolf in 2008
What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak

Co-written with David Schweidel. Finalist for the 2008 Western Writers of America Best Work of Nonfiction. Published by Cinco Puntos Press in 2008.
Novels
Century's Son

Published in 2002 by Knopf Paperback published in 2003 by Picador
American Owned Love

Published by Knopf in 1997. Paperback published by HarperPerennial in 1998
Mystery Ride

Published by Knopf in 1993. Paperback published by HarperCollins in 1994.
The Geography of Desire

Published by Knopf in 1989. Paperback published by HarperCollins in 1994.
Crooked Hearts

Published by Knopf in 1987. Paperback published by HarperCollins in 1988.
Virtual Death

Published by HarperPrism, 1995
Plays
Tongues

Winner of the John Gassner Prize First performed by American Southwest Theatre Company in 1999