CLIENT: Galore
ISSUE: November 2025, Nr. 73
SUBJECT: T. C. Boyle, American novelist and short story writer
PHOTO EDITOR: Anna Merten

T.C. Boyle is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American literature, known for his sharp wit, narrative momentum, and unflinching exploration of modern life’s contradictions. Across a career spanning decades, his work has consistently balanced dark humor with incisive social observation. His latest novel, No Way Home, is a tense, psychologically charged story following Terrence Tully, an L.A. medical resident whose structured life unravels after inheriting his mother’s home in a desolate Nevada town. Drawn into a dangerous love triangle, Tully is pulled into a chaotic, aimless world. Boyle explores themes of obsession, jealousy, and toxic masculinity, showing how easily control can slip away when identity and desire collide.

The photographs in this series were taken at Boyle’s Frank Lloyd Wright–designed house in Santa Barbara, a space that reflects the author’s appreciation for architecture, design, and thoughtful composition. The clean lines, natural light, and carefully considered angles of the house provided a quiet, contemplative backdrop, allowing Boyle’s presence, character, and subtle intensity to come through. These images capture not only the man behind the novels but also a sense of the environments that inspire and shape his work, creating a visual companion to the psychological depth and tension of No Way Home.