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An eyewitness to monumental moments in the 20th century, author Kay Boyle hung out with Left Bank artists and literary giants, chronicled the ravages of WWII, was blacklisted in the 1950s and was jailed for her Haight-Ashbury activism in the late 1960s. An intrepid modernist committed to a “Revolution of the Word,” this two-time O. Henry award-winner penned 14 novels, eight volumes of poetry and 11 collections of short fiction, yet too few readers today have read her work or even know her name. Returning guest Anne Boyd Rioux joins us this week to discuss Kay Boyle’s audacious life and her lasting impact on literature.

Mentioned in this episode:

Fifty Stories by Kay Boyle

Avalanche by Kay Boyle

Audacious Women, Creative Lives Substack by Anne Boyd Rioux

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein

Broom literary magazine

Being Geniuses Together: 1920-1930 by Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle

The Armory Show of 1913

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Ernest Walsh

James Joyce

Lawrence Vail

Robert McAlmon

William Carlos Williams

Marianne Moore

Jean Toomer

The Revolution of the Word

Raymond Duncan

Joseph von Franckenstein

Five Days One Summer film starring Sean Connery

Meg, Joe, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why it Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux

The Collected Stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson

“Wedding Day” by Kay Boyle

“The White Horses of Vienna” by Kay Boyle

“Maiden, Maiden” by Kay Boyle

“The Diplomat’s Wife” by Kay Boyle

“Security” by Kay Boyle

“Adam’s Death” by Kay Boyle

“Men” by Kay Boyle

“The Lost” by Kay Boyle

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