Novelist. Author of "KILLOYLE," "THE GREAT PINT-PULLING OLYMPIAD," and "THE ADORATIONS." Published by dalkeyarchive.store/ groveatlantic.com/
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"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!
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A carabiniere surveys the traffic on a secondary road near Rome, 1970s.
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Roger Boylan retweeted
KILLOYLE, Roger Boylan’s hilarious first novel, will be available June 16th, 2026!
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Director François Truffaut and Jacqueline Bisset at the Cannes Film Festival to premiere "Day for Night" (French: "La Nuit américaine"), 1973.
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A window cleaner on the side of the RCA Building in the Rockefeller Center, with St Patrick's Cathedral below him to the left, 1961.
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Marilyn Monroe waiting for the subway at Grand Central Terminal, NYC.
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Samuel Beckett at his favorite local café-PMU, Boulevard St Jacques, Paris, 1985. Photo by John Minihan.
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Sir Stirling Moss with the Ferrari 250 GT in which he won three races out of three, including the 1960 Goodwood TT and the Nassau TT. The car later sold for £7million.
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Raquel Welch and Marcello Mastroianni, who co-starred in the Italian comedy "Spara forte, più forte, non capisco" ("Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand"), 1966.
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Fritz Lang, Austrian Expressionist filmmaker. He directed such classics as "M," "The Testament of Dr. Mabuse," and "Metropolis." He later emigrated and made many films in Hollywood.
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Ingrid Pitt as Heidi, the waitress/undercover agent in "Where Eagles Dare," 1968.
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Delivery trucks at Les Halles, Paris, early '50s. Merchants completed their last day of work at Les Halles in 1973, bringing 200 years of the operation to a close. It reopened in Rungis, south of Paris.
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