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.

The Barbershop

A fixture beneath the tracks

By Brian Doyle | Friday July 17, 2015

A Possible Infinity of Novels

Life lessons of a newspaperman

By Brian Doyle | Friday July 10, 2015

Beer with Peter

In the spell of a great storyteller

By Brian Doyle | Friday July 3, 2015

Michael

Lessons learned in the schoolyard

By Brian Doyle | Friday June 26, 2015

Finches I Have Known

Notes from the life of a bird whisperer

By Brian Doyle | Friday June 19, 2015

Fourples and Fiples and Sixles

Diamond joy

By Brian Doyle | Friday June 12, 2015

Mongo

Why would you bait a guy who’d love to take out your teeth?

By Brian Doyle | Friday June 5, 2015

Letters and Comments on My Writing

A selection

By Brian Doyle | Friday May 29, 2015

A Note on Stationery

And suddenly the memories revealed themselves

By Brian Doyle | Friday May 22, 2015

A Tinkering Kind of Guy

The absence of arrogance

By Brian Doyle | Friday May 15, 2015

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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