Megan Boyle (born October 15, 1985) is an American writer and filmmaker. Boyle grew up in

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, Maryland, and rose to prominence among the Alt Lit and internet community after writing popular articles for Thought Catalog and marrying writer

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. Together, Boyle and Lin created several movies for their company MDMAfilms, which they began in 2010. In 2011, Lin published Boyle's poetry collection, ''selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee'', which garnered favorable reviews. From 2011 to 2013, Boyle wrote a column for ''Vice Magazine'' called Boyle's Brains. From March to September 2013, she " liveblogged", documenting her daily activities on

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; the liveblog reached 350,000 words and was called a "painfully honest and raw record of a person’s life." Tyrant Books released a print edition, ''Liveblog'', on September 27, 2018. Reviewing ''Liveblog'' for ''

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'', Lauren Oyler wrote, "In subject matter, ''Liveblog'' also resembles recent novels depicting female disillusionment—among them

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’s ''My Year of Rest and Relaxation'', Catherine Lacey’s ''The Answers'', and Jade Sharma’s ''Problems''. But while the narrators of these tight, polished novels speak in steady tones of sly nihilism or emptied resignation, as if their authors have dressed them in large sunglasses and T-shirts that say “Nothing Matters,” Megan desperately wants to believe something does." In a review for the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper '' LNP'' titled "'Liveblog' is a masterpiece for the social media age," Mike Andrelczyk wrote: "Boyle has written perhaps the most realistic novel ever. 'Liveblog' is a journal, a joke book, a massive playlist, a meditation on the passing of time, a book about depression, loss, love, parents, friends . . . It is a celebration of life—good, bad and boring." In ''

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'' in 2019, Pete Tosiello wrote: "Megan Boyle’s long-simmering autofiction experiment ''Liveblog'' left readers captivated and cowering with its lengthy portrayal of the author’s everyday exploits." Boyle has been profiled by magazines such as ''Nylon'' and ''Elle.'' Critic Jacob Appel has praised her work in ''Necessary Fiction'' as "a distinctive break from the past."http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/SelectedUnpublishedBlogPostsofaMexicanPandaExpressEmployeebyMeganBoyle Necessary Fiction Retrieved 2014-07-05 Boyle's work has been published in places such as '' 3:AM Magazine'',

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, ''Pear Noir!'', and ''Pop Serial''.

Bibliography

* ''selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee'',

, 2011. * ''LIVEBLOG'', Tyrant Books, 2018.

References

External links

Boyle's official site
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Boyle's page at Vice
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