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"A HAUNTING, DAVID LYNCHIAN READ..."
T.C. Boyle
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Nine Pin Cider Works
929 Broadway
Albany, NY 12207
Join us for an evening with acclaimed novelist T. C. Boyle, widely regarded as one of the greatest storytellers in American fiction. With more than thirty works of fiction to his name, Boyle has built a career defined by bold imagination, psychological depth, and unforgettable characters.
Boyle will read from and discuss his latest novel, No Way Home, a dark, propulsive story set beneath the harsh Nevada desert sky. Part psychological thriller and part haunting character study, the novel follows a young doctor whose life unravels after a chance encounter spirals into obsession and violence.
The evening will be moderated by Paul Grondahl, Executive Director of the New York State Writers Institute, in a conversation exploring the craft of storytelling and the unsettling themes at the heart of Boyle’s work.
(Photo credit: Spencer Boyle)
Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for sale.
A signing will follow the conversation.
Reviews
"A relentless, electrifying, noirish tale of seduction, lies, denial, anger, violence, and capitulation set in the pitiless desert along the shores of the disastrously shrinking Lake Mead... A gripping, forensically exacting novel of pathological behavior, an MRI scan of human nature."
― Booklist
"For his tense latest, Boyle returns to the desert terrain that has long served as a crucible and moral testing ground in his novels... None of the central characters emerges unscathed from Boyle’s piercing depictions of their transactional and self-serving behavior. This sharply observed novel will keep readers turning the pages."
― Publishers Weekly
"PEN/Faulkner winner T.C. Boyle has crafted a haunting, David Lynchian read. After his mother dies, Terrence, a medical resident at a Los Angeles hospital, drives to the Nevada desert town where she lived. There, he gets involved with a pretty young receptionist and her ex-boyfriend and falls into a nihilistic world of tequila, drugs, cheap sex and violence."
― Hailey Eber, New York Post