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Boully's essays are ripe with romance and sensual pleasures, drawing connections between the digression, reflection, imagination, and experience that characterizes falling in love as well as the life of a writer. Literary theory, philosophy, and linguistics rub up against memory, dreamscapes, and fancy, making the practice of writing a metaphor for the illusory nature of experience. Betwixt and Between is, in many ways, simply a book about how to live. Jenny Boully is the author of The Body: An Essay, The Book of Beginnings and Endings: Essays, not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them, and other books. Born in Thailand, she grew up in Texas and holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She teaches creative writing and literature at Columbia College Chicago.
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"Boully's thought process, as seen on the page, is a pure pleasure to behold, she's full of delight and her words offer sensations beyond what mere words usually do."
Nylon
"[Boully's] prose is reminiscent of Lydia Davis'-spare, elliptical, unexpected-and sometimes, in her rhythmic cadences, of Gertrude Stein's… Graceful meditations on love, loneliness, and the magic of words."
Kirkus
"I cherish my fevers because they begin to break down the edges of the self I've so meticulously constructed in my waking life. Jenny Boully's sentences have a similar effect on me. She comes by her slippages and seams honestly. One gets the sense that she has straddled the space between waking and dreaming, not writing and writing, her whole life, and has something real to tell you about the time
Ander Monson