Love will prevail.
Autumn 2024
Jenny Boylan is the author of 18 books, a Trustee of PEN America, and the Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University. In 2022-23, she was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
The title and the cover of my new book has now been revealed! Get ready for CLEAVAGE: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.
An excerpt from the book was published in People, and you can read that right here.
CLEAVAGE is a bookend to SHE’S NOT THERE, 20 years later, and addresses the differences between men and women, as I have lived them, as well as the difference between coming out as trans 25 years ago, as I did, and now.
Pub date is February 2025, and is available for preorder here.
There will be a February book tour, and details of that–as well as other media appearances, will be posted here, and in social media as we draw near.
I’m not doing much op/ed work these days, as the Presidency of PEN America and my teaching life at Barnard/Columbia occupies me. But I have created a new performance piece, O THE HUMANITY, which I’ll debut at UC Santa Cruz this winter. I’ll be Visiting Scholar in Residence at UCSC in spring of 2025.
Meanwhile, MAD HONEY is out in paperback, and the wild adventure of that book is all but done, as least as far as we here at Boylan Industries are concerned.
I have my fingers crossed for November 24, and have high hopes that there will continue to be room in the American experience for people like me and my family. I do believe, deep in my heart, we shall overcome some day.
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MAD HONEY
Co-written with Jodi Picoult, a soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past and what we choose to leave behind.
Published 10.4.22 in hardcover, eBook, and audio
Available for order now here!
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