A book about a real-life treasure hunt in New Mexico (co-written with David Schweidel). What Men Call Treasure: The Search for Gold at Victorio Peak.(published under the pseudonym Shale Aaron) The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards.City Bus, published in Ploughshares, Spring 2004.Boswell teaches creative writing at the University of Houston. He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson. His son, James Boswell, the diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson, was born at nearby Auchinleck. He has been faculty at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. It was Alexander Boswell who had Auchinleck House built. Robert Boswell is an American short story writer and novelist. He is the author of seven novels (including Centurys Son, Mystery Ride, and Crooked Hearts), three story collections, a play, a cyberpunk novel, and two books. In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated.Tumbledown, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

In Tumbledown, Robert Boswell presents a large, unforgettable cast of characters who are all failing and succeeding in various degrees to make sense of our often-irrational world. He has a fiancee, a sizable house, and a Porsche.

He's in line for a big promotion at Onyx Springs, the treatment facility where he's a therapist. *A Library Journal 'Best Indie Fiction of 2013' *Īt age thirty-three, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success. Robert Boswell's first novel since Century's Son showcases once again his 'dazzling technical skill, intelligence and moral seriousness' ( The New York Times Book Review) In a moving narrative twist, he boldly reckons with the extent to which tragedy can be undone, the impossible accommodated. How can he help them if he can't help himself? And his clients are struggling in their own hilarious, heartbreaking ways to keep their lives on track. Even the GPS on his car can't seem to predict where he should turn next. he's falling in love with another woman, he's underwater on his mortgage, and he's put his hapless best friend in charge of his signature therapeutic program. He has a fiancée, a sizable house, and a Porsche.īut. Robert Boswell's first novel since Century's Son showcases once again his “dazzling technical skill, intelligence and moral seriousness” ( The New York Times Book Review).Īt age thirty-three, James Candler seems to be well on the road to success.

Century's Son by Robert Boswell