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boy-chik Yiddish word for a young man with more chutzpah than brains. It's all about male-centered comic fiction, in the manner of Peter De Vries (godfather of boychik) and more recent masters of the genre, Erik Tarloff (The Man Who Wrote the Book) and Peter Lefcourt (The Woody). Here's a place for commentary on this evolving form (also called "fratire"). You can buy Gerald's books from Amazon.com or your favorite bookseller.

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Sunday, December 23, 2007

Guest Post: Maggie Ball's Rollo

Rollo gets both barrels full in the face on The Compulsive Reader site.

Magdalena Ball is a frequent guest of the boychik and the author of Sleep Before Evening.
Posted by boychik at 5:12 PM
Labels: battle of the sexes, boychik lit, fratire, humorous fiction

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Gerald Everett Jones

Gerald Everett Jones
(the boychik)

About me...

When I was in high school, my chemistry teacher approached me and asked with a sly grin, "You interested in mining?"
I told him absolutely not. I was going to be a writer.
Little did I suspect that he wanted to send me to a student conference on metallurgy where I could seek the fellowship of like-minded teens on a minimally supervised road-trip to the Big City.
Undeterred by my abrupt negative response, he grumbled, "Well, you're interested in mining your own business, aren't you?"
And he sent me anyway.
Now I realize I should've listened more carefully to everything he said.
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Gerald Everett Jones is the author of the Rollo Hemphill series of comic novels, including My Inflatable Friend, and the forthcoming Rubber Babes and Farnsworth's
Revenge
. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kozinski (The Painted Bird, Being There). Publishing details and press kits at La Puerta Productions.

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