Robert Boswell

FALL EVENTS FOR ROBERT BOSWELL

OCTOBER 1: Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell read at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

OCTOBER 3: A screening of Glissando, a film based on one of Robert Boswell's short stories, will take place at The Fountain Theater in Mesilla, New Mexico at 1:30. Boswell will answer questions and sign books.

OCTOBER 9: Antonya Nelson and Robert Boswell read in Las Cruces for the La Sociedad Hunger Benefit. All proceeds go to Casa de Peregrinos, the local emergency food bank.

OCTOBER 29: Robert Boswell reads in New York as part of a Graywolf Press celebration.

NOVEMBER 11-14: Robert Boswell will do a residency at the University of Montana in Missoula, which will include a public reading.


Antonya Nelson and I read together twice this fall.

Stay at an Italian villa in Spannocchia.
If you'd like to study writing for three weeks in Italy, click on the image to look at Stephen Webber's Writing Immersion session in beautiful Spannocchia.

Stephen is a brilliant teacher. I recommend his Writing Immersion program.

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