Claire Boyle
Författare till McSweeney's Issue 66
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Claire Boyle is Lecturer in French at the University of Stirling.
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One booklet is a fascinating, essentially two-character play called "The Headliners" that challenges gender roles and identity and is based on a true episode involving America's biggest stage stars of the early 20th century. One character is a brash self-promoting comedienne, and the other is a serious-about-his-craft female impersonator. It premiered in Denver in 2023 and I wouldn't mind seeing it someday.
The longest booklet contains the stories and letters and it's the usual bag of mixed nuts. The best stories for me included Jim Shepard's outstanding "The Testament of Edward Hyde," a retelling of the Jekyll and Hyde tale, often from the point of view of Hyde. Shepard's use of Victorian language feels perfect. Another great piece was Kevin Moffett's "An Education," which reads like memoir and becomes increasingly poignant. The booklet also contains the award-winning story and runner-up of the first Stephen Dixon Award for Short Fiction. I can't really say that the stories measure up to writing of Mr. Dixon, but it's an award for emerging writers so perhaps we'll see more writing from these two young ladies in the future.
The last booklet is titled "From the Bus" and it's Tim Heidecker's tour diary from his Two Tims tour of 2023. One part of the show was standup with Tim generally being an annoying, anti-funny comic, and the other was a concert of him performing original songs backed by what seems to be a pretty great band. This booklet makes me worry a little bit about McSweeney's. The writing is competent and observant but not funny and not insightful and definitely too long at 170 pages. It's a nice little memento for Tim but I had a pretty good idea of what traveling cross-country by bus on tour was like and this didn't really provide any illumination.… (mer)