Will Boast
Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His short story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for a California Book Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices and the New York Times, among other publications. He has been a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the UK.
Publications
Will Boast on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 2000: The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
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Will Boast on why Lionel Trilling’s The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent is the best book of 2000.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Black Car
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‘It got into you. How many scrapes had he seen? How many wrecks?’ New fiction from Will Boast.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Agony and Ecstasy of Escape
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Will Boast on how Bernini's Apollo and Daphne helped him write his latest novel
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Back Way and the Way Back
Will Boast
Despite emerging from two decades of misrule under Yahya Jammeh, many Gambians still aspire to go ‘the back way’ into Europe.