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Ethan interviews Jennifer on The Radicalguy podcast

Ethan does a great interview with Jenny in this podcast. I have her book and I hope to get her to sign it sometime.

Guest: Jennifer Finney Boylan

from The Radicalguy by Ethan St.Pierre

Jennifer Finney Boylan is a widely praised author and professor. Jenny's memoir,She's Not There won an award from the Lambda LIterary Foundation in 2004, the year after its initial publication. The book has since been published in many foreign editions, and was an alternate selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Her 2008 memoir, I'm Looking Through You, is about growing up in a haunted house. While trans issues form part of the exposition of the book, the primary focus of I'm Looking Through You is on what it means to be "haunted," and how we all seek to find peace with our various ghosts, both the supernatural and the all-too-human.

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Jennifer Finney Boylan has a new website

A week ago Betty (of Helen and Betty fame) announced on their MyHusbandBetty site. I just found it today:

So, it gives me great pleasure (amidst much trepidation) to announce that Jenny Boylan's New Website can be found here:

http://www.jenniferboylan.net

Lots of good stuff including some fun readings by Jenny on YouTube videos. Good job Betty!

"She’s Not There" by Jennifer Boylan is on a "Recommended Books for Grade 10" list.

From the neat stuff found while looking for something else department:

Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, has She’s Not There by Jennifer Boylan on their "Recommended Books for Grade 10" list.

Grade 10! Wow! What a school! Good for them!

Jennifer Finney Boylan's new book "I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir"

Jennifer Finney Boylan's new book is due out on January 15, 2008. I have it pre-ordered.

"Support group scene" from All My Children.

Thanks to Helen Boyd of My Husband Betty fame I now can share this "Support group scene" from All My Children.

Enjoy!

Does anyone know who all these people are?

The leader of the group is Jennifer Finney Boylan, of course. Betty Crow is in red, she is the husband in the book My Husband Betty. I don't know who the oriental looking lady is? Kinda looks like Marcy Bowers? But I don't thinks so. And the others, I have no idea.

I finely finished She's Not There.

I finely finished Jennifer Boylan's book, She's Not There, and I cried for Melanie. Melanie was the one who shared a room in the hospital with Jenny when they each got there SRS. Everything went wrong for her, and the reader did not get to find out what ultimately happend to her. As I finished the book, I forgot about Jenny and all I could think about was the horrible support she got in her live and how bad things were working out for her during the week she got her SRS.

I wrote in an email to a friend "We don't have to worry about "Golden girl Jenny" she will do just fine, but I worry about poor Melanie. "

Then I Googled for information on Melanie and Jennifer. I found a neat interview with Jenny where she said:

JB: But yeah, it’s worth saying as long as we are updating the record here that Melanie has landed on her feet. Her family has become much more accepting and she is engaged to be married in December and I am to be one of her bridesmaids. I think she is going to be fine.

RB: Are you looking forward to the wedding?

JB: Are you kidding? It’s going to be great.

RB: Do you like weddings?

JB: I have been a best man, now I’m going to be a bridesmaid. And I hope to write a piece about it for my next book. link

I was so glad to read that the Melanie story had a happy side. I still want to know more, but I feel a lot better.