T.C. Boyle

Dark, comic, and eclectic, The Terranauts is the latest of T.C. Boyle’s beloved books. Boyle comes to LIVE to discuss science, society, sex, and survival - the themes that drive his latest work.

T.C. BOYLE is the author of fifteen novels and ten volumes of short stories, including the PEN/Faulkner Award-winningWorld’s End; The Tortilla Curtain, which was awarded France’s prestigious Prix Médicis étranger; and most recently, theNew York Times bestseller The Harder They Come. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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