"What makes Boylan’s novel so brilliant is that it’s relatable. It conjures up early 20th century Paris and Vienna with superlative clarity while describing events and characters that are all entirely relevant." --Dante Pettapiece. Read it and see if you agree!

The Devil's Backbone, Texas. Read my novel of the same name, here: rogerboylan.substack.com/

Church Street, NYC, ca. 1978.

Stadler express train in Spiez station, Switzerland.

Ingrid Pitt.

Orson Welles and Michael Redgrave.

Karl Ove Knausgård, Norwegian author, who became known for a series of six autobiographical novels titled "My Struggle." James Wood of "The New Yorker" wrote "There is something ceaselessly compelling about Knausgård's book: even when I was bored, I was interested."

Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, writer, scholar, soldier and philhellene. He died in 2011, aged 96. A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene."

Jon Finch and Barbara Leigh-Hunt in Hitchcock's "Frenzy," 1972. Roger Ebert said, "This is the kind of thriller Hitchcock was making in the 1940s, filled with macabre details, incongruous humor, and the desperation of a man convicted of a crime he didn't commit."

Liv Ullmann.

Peter Falk and director John Cassavetes on location during the making of "A Woman Under the Influence," 1974.

"Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it." — Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac while filming "L'Homme de Rio," 1964.

Morning coffee in Bern.

"Devil's Backbone," by the author of "Killoyle," "The Adorations" and "The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad." A novel about ghosts and boozing and love affairs in the Texas Hill Country. Scroll down to Chapter One. Enjoy. rogerboylan.substack.com/

Senta Berger.

Herbert von Karajan and his Porsche 930 Turbo.

42nd Street, 1978. The Hotel Carter, a shabby flophouse next to porn cinemas, was my first home in NYC. The rattle of my A/C drowned out the endless commotion of the street, and I kept a chair propped against the door to deter unwanted visitors. Those were the days.

The cog railway above Lugano, Switzerland.

Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara and John Cassavetes in "Husbands," 1970. Ebert said that the film "shows an important director not merely failing, but not even understanding why," but Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" included the film on his list of top 10 films of the year.

Dusk in Lucerne, Switzerland.