187. Kay Boyle — Fifty Stories with Anne Boyd Rioux
An eyewitness to monumental moments in the 20th century, author Kay Boyle hung out with Left Bank artists and literary giants, chronicled the ravages of WWII, was blacklisted in the 1950s and was jailed for her Haight-Ashbury activism in the late 1960s. An intrepid modernist committed to a “Revolution of the Word,” this two-time O. Henry award-winner penned 14 novels, eight volumes of poetry and 11 collections of short fiction, yet too few readers today have read her work or even know her name. Returning guest Anne Boyd Rioux joins us this week to discuss Kay Boyle’s audacious life and her lasting impact on literature.
Mentioned in this episode:
Fifty Stories by Kay Boyle
Avalanche by Kay Boyle
Audacious Women, Creative Lives Substack by Anne Boyd Rioux
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
Broom literary magazine
Being Geniuses Together: 1920-1930 by Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 11 on Constance Fenimore Woolson
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 108 on Lola Ridge
Lost Ladies of Lit Episode No. 98 on Heterodoxy
Ernest Walsh
James Joyce
Lawrence Vail
Robert McAlmon
William Carlos Williams
Marianne Moore
Jean Toomer
Five Days One Summer film starring Sean Connery
Meg, Joe, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why it Still Matters by Anne Boyd Rioux
The Collected Stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson
“Wedding Day” by Kay Boyle
“The White Horses of Vienna” by Kay Boyle
“Maiden, Maiden” by Kay Boyle
“The Diplomat’s Wife” by Kay Boyle
“Security” by Kay Boyle
“Adam’s Death” by Kay Boyle
“Men” by Kay Boyle
“The Lost” by Kay Boyle
Referenced for this episode:
Kay Boyle: Artist and Activist by Sandra Whipple Spanier
“Kay Boyle Knew Everyone and Saw It All” by Sandra Whipple Spanier