Mr. Boyle, seems to me that your ‘Zeitzeichen’ report about old Mungo will be available only on July 20th.But there is another podcast with short excerpts from your WM,broadcasted in 2016. Your German tongue readers might enjoy it by trying out the play on this link. www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

Mungo Park erreicht den Niger (am 20.07.1796)

1795 bricht der junge schottische Arzt Mungo Park zu einer Expedition auf und dringt tief in den dunklen Kontinent vor. Tatsächlich gelingt es ihm als erster Europäer den Niger zu erreichen. Sein Reis...

www1.wdr.de

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3w ago

Mungo lives! www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr5/s...

Maybe not too loudly or HE will ask about a bargain price for both tiny and little country and you will risk to never get back into the Duke’s Castle deal.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 4w ago

I will broadcast it far and wide.

If HE complains about a tiny soccer country (don’t tell our Greek friend that I’m using this term for football,you know how picky he can get on the subject) kicking out HIS MAGA team,maybe you can tell that it wasn’t the country with the Grand Duke ruler,but the neighbour country ruled by a King

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 4w ago

Our supremely gifted Supreme Leader seen here effortlessly hitting the falsetto high notes on “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” which he’s reprising for all the NATO dignitaries

Let’s hope the young one will remember his Dad’s promises about the long ago planned house/castle switching.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Yes, please do that.

That’s what I thought. Better don’t tell him how it wirks iver here, as he would probably say ‘I’ll buy that tiny place’.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Just the way the Trump Dynasty wants it here.

I know,I know!Since the SON of the old Grand Duke got in charge last year,things are still unchanged.Those Dukes are damn busy and difficult to reach.Tuesday,tiny country’s National Day will be his main working day of the year,maybe I could try to pass the reminder of you waiting for the invitation.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Ah, yes, but I am still waiting for an invite from your Grand Duke.

How true! I wonder how come that your man in charge never thought about having a envious look towards the tiny country? I mean, being a Grand Duke from Father to Son forever.No election needed! Castle and all payed from Tax money to princesses and princes included.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

The glory days! That was back when America was still a democracy!

Quiz question: Morning greetings from a little neighbor country.Frau B should know it,as in Albany she made me its citizen, when you mentioned to your audience a reader from far away. You once did a reading in this bilingual capital,when the Dutch copy of WTKD was published by the tall redshoed lady

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Evening.

So you think tha once we hear that slippers/hard pointed boots warning, we better get careful and ready for a fast ride?

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Saddle up, hombre!

Looking forward to add those on my shelf. The dedication line of Workd’s End remains one of my fave, Also rhe book is one that I recommend to people asking me for where to start to read TCB. WE also brings us back to the mighty Hudson, and to the start of our little discussion here.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Many more to come, hermano!

I remember you and me once discussing how dangerous J’s slippers can get, when I disagree with her. Your dear Frau hearing our TT, she chimed in by telling that for Me and Yourself slippers were far too soft and we both rather needed sometimes steel pointed cowboyboots to …. 🤷🏼‍♂️

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Frau B. does the same thing to me. My advice? Wear shinguards.

Thanks, it will be all interesting to take your 32 books from my shelf and dress up a list of the people close to you, family, friends from older days, friends from LA days, agent, publishing houses, to who you are dedicating your work. I think I have met about 10 of them in real life.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

You are a gem, my friend.

Quite a Raconteurs’ Club they must have been! Those seven members mentioned aside K.K.! And the Inner Circle closing kind of with No Way Home dedicated to the memory of one of them. And the book itself being launched in recent memory times of A.A. advancing them all in alphabet.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Yes. See the dedication to "Water Music."

Thanks for the flowers, Mr. Boyle! Me tiny reader, am very lucky, the same as all your world wide readers, that being a fine and mighty word smith, YOU’re still available to share time and life thoughts with us, like the Hudson Kid did with his Greasy Lake friends in okder says.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

And yet you grew up into a fine and discerning reader.

Absolutely! Great Plan!

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Okay, but only if you and I wait it out in the bar.

How true! And how nervous me little reader became, so I ran on Montecito village street for forgotten flowers, as the dear Frau showed up all by surprise. Shy J, not having met you then, had stayed at the Paseo, which made you write: ‘next time we go shopping all four’. We still have to do that 😱

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

A memorable occasion, hermano.

How Lucky (no pun intended) I was,that almost 16 years ago,Frau Boyle didn't put on her dancing shoes and followed you to Lucky's,wondering about you having a reader in tiny country nobody knows.Please give her my best greetings.I hope you won't give her a NO (à la Georgie Gleg) on the dancing floor

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 2mo ago

Lucky’s, Memorial Day weekend. I encouraged Frau B. to join me, but she declined. She’s saving her energy for the dance club later tonight.

Am I too impatient, to wonder how (s)he will be called? The little ones still fighting about who of is finding the best choice of a name?

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3mo ago

The dog.

SHE/HE Found A Way Home? What fun it must be for the whole house. And the kiddies from the next door neighbour must be all excited about the new family member!

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3mo ago

The dog.

Big changes,you say! Seems that the publishing world all in all is heading toward some changes.More US authors are first published in translation than in the original sound.See Siri Hustvedt's 'Ghost Stories'.Or if not first,than at least at the same time than the US readers have it on the shelves.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3mo ago

Ah! Big changes at Grasset, so I hear.

Mr.Boyle,I don't know if my old brain is mixing things up a bit,but just to be sure,you mean by the 'new blog' the news on tcboyle.com dated May, 12th? 29th in your own SB,you say?Hm,that's tempting,but after recent Albany/NY,and now a week in Athens,would be more than the money bag my boss allows.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3mo ago

www.tcboyle.com/base.html?1h... New blog post is up. Enjoy.

Great Cover! Great cover story! I like it that Ripley one of my fave authors makes it on the cover and going with him to Paris brings back number of souvenirs around rue des Saints Pères and that holy locked door which opened all mysteriously on a wink by you.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3mo ago

Next March.

Please,after Siri made me cry with her too real "Ghost Stories", recenlty at the NYPL, may I ask you to rather keep it with "My Widow"-like stories?

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3mo ago

Same thing, I hear, with wives (and husbands).

Easter,Ascenion,...,getting alone into the desert, isn't it all a bit the same same? Main thing imho,one leaves the tuba, playing all by itself ,at the lonely cellar hole.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3mo ago

????? I thought that was at Easter?

Seems to be a nice walk. And no red duck umbrella needed?

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3mo ago

The morning, Albany, 7:00 A.M.

Hi Mr. Boyle!I have heard that Albany is a nice city with great people from the writers institute. have heard that a splendid journalist organised your yesterday's gig.Seems there was spotted a writer wearing a splendid Boss Tshirt,with a lady at his side with a nice surname 'Rain'.

T.C. Boyle@tcboyle.com · 3mo ago

Night.