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Well, I would have
been honored to--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--but I'm actually
introducing Bos.

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[CHUCKLES] Yeah, I too
am so grateful that we

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have these dear friends and
alumni of the program here.

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Robert Boswell is the author
of nine books of fiction,

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including this short story
collection, The Heyday

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of The Insensitive Bastards, and
such novels as Century's Son,

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Mystery Ride, and
Crooked Hearts, which

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was made into the movie
of the same title.

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It's a wonderful movie.

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And when I asked my husband
to check the Internet Movie

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Database for the year that
Crooked Hearts came out,

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he read in the brief bio that
Robert Boswell was up 32%

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in popularity this week.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And to find out why,
I would have had

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to subscribe to the IMDbPro.

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So I can just imagine why
he was up in popularity.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Robert Boswell has published
two books of nonfiction,

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including The Half-Known
World, his book on the craft

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of writing fiction.

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He's also had a
prize-winning play produced.

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His fiction has appeared in Best
American Short Stories, The New

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Yorker, Esquire, Pushcart
Prize Stories, O. Henry Prize

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Stories, and a host of
other literary magazines.

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He teaches creative
writing at the University

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of Houston, New Mexico State
University, and the Warren

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Wilson MFA program.

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He's a gifted and
generous teacher.

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And people who haven't
had the good fortune

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to be a student in
the classroom ought

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to be aware that he's distilled
many years of experience

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as a reader, writer, and
teacher into his argument

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for literary fiction that
he so carefully develops

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in The Half-Known
World, a great book

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to read in tandem with
the most recent story

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collection, The Heyday of
the Insensitive Bastards.

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The title of the
collection suggests,

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to anyone who knows
Robert Boswell, that this

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was a book that had to be
laboriously researched,

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since he is a man of modesty,
intelligence, and sensitivity,

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and these are things that
he shared with all of us

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for many years in his
work and in his life.

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Robert Boswell.

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[APPLAUSE]

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