Brian Doyle

Brian Doyle, an essayist and novelist, died on May 27, 2017. To read Epiphanies, his longtime blog for the Scholar, please go here.

By the Light of the Silvery Moon …

So go the dung beetles

By Brian Doyle | Friday January 10, 2014

Headlights

The changing shape of comics

By Brian Doyle | Friday January 3, 2014

This Is the Best World Ever!

The elevating focus of prayer

By Brian Doyle | Friday December 20, 2013

The Theater of Clothing

Lessons learned from the way we dress

By Brian Doyle | Friday December 13, 2013

Major Auden

The poet’s new clothes

By Brian Doyle | Friday December 6, 2013

Sara

The richness of a dying woman’s love

By Brian Doyle | Friday November 22, 2013

Leaving Your Kid Brother at the Rest Stop

A Note

By Brian Doyle | Friday November 15, 2013

The Five-Iron

Let us celebrate that most neglected club in the bag

By Brian Doyle | Friday November 8, 2013

My Brother Peter

A thing I have long wanted to say

By Brian Doyle | Friday November 1, 2013

The Babe

What if sporting encounters really were life and death?

By Brian Doyle | Friday October 25, 2013

The Lightness of Errol Flynn

By Brian Doyle | Monday December 5, 2016

Well, Some of It Was True

By Brian Doyle | Monday June 6, 2016

His Subtle Speech

By Brian Doyle | Wednesday June 1, 2016

Boxing Out

By Brian Doyle | Wednesday June 1, 2016

The Spitter

By Brian Doyle | Wednesday June 1, 2016

The Island

By Brian Doyle | Wednesday June 1, 2016

The Eloquent Silence of It

By Brian Doyle | Wednesday June 1, 2016

His Listening

By Brian Doyle | Friday May 27, 2016

The Bulletin Board of Your Head

By Brian Doyle | Friday May 20, 2016

Crush

By Brian Doyle | Friday May 13, 2016

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