and/or third choice be?
Well, what I love is the mountain in Sequoia National Forest.
It’s four and a half hours from here, and that’s my favorite place;
however, I could only live there for periods of time because it’s so
isolated and boring, although I need that sometimes. I love San
Francisco; it’s my favorite city in America; I could live there, and I
have a great fondness for New York.
Before we say goodbye, we’ll need to know what would make for
a perfect Montecito Day.
something; I may take my kayak out, or typically try to keep
all this (spreads his arms over his backyard jungle) from
falling down. It’s astonishing what you have to do every day
– which I like to do; it’s good exercise. Cocktail hour, I may
go to the marina, or walk to Lucky’s or the Honor Bar or the
Biltmore.
In the evening, typically, I know I’m having a good life if I
make a meal. I’m not on the road anymore. Read a book by the
fire on a nice winter’s night when it’s raining, then maybe watch a
movie and then to bed.
In 1988 T.C. Boyle’s novel, “World’s End” won him the PEN/
Faulkner Award for Fiction. That same year he was named a Fellow by
the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts. In 1997 France honored
the translation of Boyle’s “The Tortilla Curtain” with a Prix Medicis
Étranger award. Two years later, in 1999, Boyle joined a select group of
writers that includes EudoraWelty, Saul Bellow, John Updike, and Joyce
Carol Oates, as a PEN Malamud Award winner. In 2003,
The New
York Times
chose “Drop City” as one of the ten Best Books of the Year.
It’s a typical day. For me, that involves work. I’m pretty
lucky. I get up early, six or so. Go down to Vons and get
plenty of meat for my woman (she’s on the Paleo all-the-
meat-you-can-eat-and-all-the-wine-you-can-drink diet). Sit
down, read two newspapers: the
Santa Barbara News-Press
and the
L.A. Times;
put my head down and sob for half an
hour, and then go to work. When I wake up, I’m done with
work and it’s probably two or later. Then I will go and do
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