T.C. Boyle is currently on tour for the paperback release of When the Killing’s Done, his 2011 novel about environmentalists battling over the invasive species inhabiting the Channel Islands.
Boyle happens to be one of my favorite authors (like many readers, I was hooked by The Women), so I was thrilled to interview him when he swung by the Nashville Public Library. (Also, I had no idea that he is practically seven feet tall.)
As much as it was fun to chat about When the Killing’s Done, Boyle seemed very excited to discuss his next book, San Miguel, as you can see in our video interview:
After the interview, Boyle signed five paperback copies of When the Killing’s Done. Read on to find out how you can win a copy.
TO ENTER: Comment on this post with the name of an author you’d love to talk to in person.
CONTEST DETAILS: Five winners will be chosen by random.org from among entries received by 5 pm CST on Friday, April 6. The winners will each receive a signed paperback of When the Killing’s Done. Prize must be shipped to a North American address. Good luck!
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ETA: Congratulations to our winners, Rebecca, Laurie, Jason, Becky and Jonathan! They would love to talk to a wide range of authors: Sara Gruen, Charles Baxter, John Grisham, Ann Patchett and James Patterson.
Thank you to all who entered! Contest is now closed.
I’d love to talk to Shreve Stockton, author of the Daily Coyote. Thanks for a great giveaway!
sounds wonderful hope to read it either way
I would love to talk to Aimee Bender and find out how her remarkable mind operates in person.
Always a great read!
well…if I’m gonna win a copy of his book…then I think I would like to chat in person with T.C. Boyle
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My dream would be to sit down and pick Ann Patchett’s brain. Love T.C. Boyle too, though, and plan to read this novel whether I win a copy or not!
Stephen King!
John Irving, of course!
I think John Irving and Louise Erdrich..
Charles Baxter
I would love to talk to Jane Austen. I imagine that she was a woman living in very regimented times but with a wicked sense of humor. And I think she had so much more to say.
Thanks for the giveaway. Love the site!
Katie
May I choose 2? It’s really too difficult to narrow it down to just one person! So I’ve chosen one who has passed and one who is still writing – Richard Llewellyn and Leif Enger.
I would love to talk to Michael Connelly. I am a big fan of his Harry Bosch series and also enjoy reading the Mickey Haller series and would love to know how he gets all the details down in his stories that make them sound so real.
Pat Conroy and/or Anne Rivers Siddon.
Would love to meet & greet so many authors. How could I choose just one? Well… I would like to get to the real story behind why the author Lee Child picked Tom Cruise to play his 6 foot 5 character “Jack Reacher” in his upcoming movie. Inquiring minds wanna know!
A.M. Homes
I would really like to talk with William Gibson about his views on the future. Thanks for the contest.
I would like to speak to Jacqueline Winspear.
Toni Morrison! I have so many questions for her.
James Patterson
Sara Gruen. Favorite author!
Would love to meet with Val McDermid & find out what’s next for Tony Hill and Carol Jordan. Want them to hook up already!
I’d love to hear Sara Gruen be interviewed!
I see someone has said Sara already! How about Chris Bohjalian?!
John Grisham!
I, too, would love to talk to T.C. Boyle. Also Alice Hoffman, Ann Tyler, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and James Michener if he were still alive.
Bill Bryson!
Right now I am reading the Hunger Games Trilogy, so I would like to speak to Suzanne Collins. Where did she get the idea for these books.
Love books by CJ Box. Saw him at a book signing but didn’t get to talk to him. Would love to!
I’d like to talk to J. K. Rowling.
I’d like to talk to Nicole Krauss (The History of Love) and Jonathan Saffran Foer (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close). Two of my all time favorite books.
Stephen King seems like he’d be an interesting guy to talk to over a long lunch…
J. K. Rowling
I’d like to talk to Melanie Benjamin. Author of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MRS. TOM THUMB.
It’s a tie.I’d love to talk to Wally Lamb, who wrote one of the best books I haveever read, and way before Oprah put him on her best books list, I read She’s Come Undone.
Just finished reading Once Upon A River, by Bonnie Jo Campbell and would be interested in finding out how she knows sooooooooo much about the setting she used in her book. Also, one of the most poignant death ‘scene’ I have ever read takes place with a character called Smokey. It deeply touched my heart.
I’d love to meet Pat Conroy,love all his books,and movies made from them..
I’d love to meet Nicholas Sparks,and anything he writes is great…
It would have to be Lee Child–love Jack
I would love to sit down and talk with Mark Twain. What a storyteller!
I would love to meet T.C. Boyle, Ann Patchett, Jodi Picoult, Alice Hoffman, or Anne Tyler.
I have not yet read anything by Mr. Boyle, but your interview and review has piqued my curiosity and I would like to read this book.
I’d love to talk with Alice Hoffman. I recently read the Dove Keepers (and almost every other book she’s written) and I can’t praise it enough. Hopefully turning on my book club to her with this month’s pick of The Red Garden.
I agree with Alexis. Alice Hoffman would be very interesting to speak with. I would like to know how she became interested in the idea of magical thinking and then put it into her writing in such an appealing way.
So many of her books are thought provoking; I am currently reading “The Dovekeepers”, and cannot put it down. It is a very different direction for Ms Hoffman, and yet the magic is still there.
I would love to receive the signed copy of T. C. Boyle’s new book. I am a great fan. Especially loved “The Tortilla Curtain” and “A Friend of the
Earth.”
Ann Patchett – I think that it would be like sitting down with an old friend. Her book “Truth and Beauty” was such a beautiful tribute and a powerful exploration of loss. Plus she is an independent bookstore owner!
I would like to sit down and talk with Anne Perry. I have read every book she has written and am amazed at her ability to make the era seem familiar to me.
Ann Pratchett!!
Hmmm…so many to choose from. I’ll go with top three: I’d love to chat with T.C. Boyle (of course!), John Irving and Pat Conroy.
Oddly enough, I find that I’d rather be stuck in a room with a musician that I love rather than an author. But given the constraints of this contest, I’d have to go with Nick Hornby because we could talk about books AND music!
Always wanted to chat with Tom Standage about The Turk, his history of the chess-playing mechanical man. I tried to talk to Mr. Boyle at a book signing once, but for some reason we just stared at each other.
I suppose if I have to narrow it down, I would have to say Neil Gaiman, Jeannette Winterson, or Jeffery Eugenides. I think they would all be really interesting.
Jon Krakuer, I am quite sure the conversation would always be fascinating and could go on for days.
I would love to talk to Ian Mckeown. His writing is so intriguing!
Laura Hildenbrand about her book “Unbroken.” Her interviews with Louie Zamparini must have been fascinating.
I would love to talk with M.C. Beaton about her wonderful characters, especially Agatha Raisin. I love how she mixes humor with all the mystery in her books.
I would be honored to meet and talk to Ransom Riggs. His first book drew me in as if I were there myself. I enjoy his writing and creativity, you can’t help the curiousity and mystery that pulls you along!
I would like to be able to talk to Barbara Delinsky. She edited a great book of encouragement for women diagnosed with breast cancer. All the comments and anecdotes in it were from readers, friends and friends of friends. I do enjoy her fiction too. But the book about breast cancer really touched my heart as a survivor.
Laura
So many, Robert Crais, Geraldine Brooks, Michael Connelly, Sharon Kay Penman, have met David Sedaris
Carl Hiaasen. I think it would be a funny & interesting conversation.