Andrew Boryga
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When Trauma-Seekers Pigeonhole Writers of Color April 03, 2024
It took award-winning author Andrew Boryga 10 years to write his debut novel "Victim," which was published in March.When I talked to Boryga recently about spending so much time on the project, and if it would have taken that long if it wasn't so pers...
VICTIM March 22, 2024
Mr. Martin pulled back the curtain. But my real transformation began at Donlon. It makes perfect sense now. Donlon was a whole new ecosystem where I could hone my new superpower. In fact, it was in one of my very first classes as a college stu...
A Conversation with Andrew Boryga March 22, 2024
Bronx-born, Miami-based Andrew Boryga was working on his debut novel…but something wasn’t working. He knew his main characters like the back of his hand, but he was still struggling to find the plot of the novel. Rather than continue to look within, ...
Beyond the Victimhood Grift March 13, 2024
The title and marketing of Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, Victim, promise a critique of the social-justice values that have come to predominate in works released by Big Five publishers. The book delivers that, plus something more. Victim is the story o...
A Conversation with Andrew Boryga March 12, 2024
In his debut novel, Victim (Doubleday Books, 2024), Andrew Boryga explores identity politics, diversity with a capital D, and how social media has weaponized both movements. As a writer interested in how victims become perpetrators and perpetrators v...
A Conversation with Andrew Boryga March 05, 2024
This is an occasional series where I interview contemporary novelists of note. I had the pleasure of reading Victim, Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, which follows the trials of Javi, an aspiring writer who cynically exploits his working class Latino ide...
Playing the Victim March 04, 2024
The tidal wave of poststructuralist discourse that crashed onto the American academic scene in the 1970s has left numerous cultural tropes that have trickled their way down into mainstream culture. Is all this talk about social justice and decolonisa...
