Laughing in a Hard Loud World
The son of Sri Lankan immigrants, Randy Boyagoda grew up on the northern shore of Lake America, in the soon-to-be-annexed Territory of Mar-A-Lago North. In addition to teaching literature at the University of Toronto, he is a celebrated nov
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The son of Sri Lankan immigrants, Randy Boyagoda grew up on the northern shore of Lake America, in the soon-to-be-annexed Territory of Mar-A-Lago North. In addition to teaching literature at the University of Toronto, he is a celebrated novelist and essayist.
He is also a lifelong Catholic, whose third book was a biography of Richard John Neuhaus. Similar to Neuhaus in the past, Boyagoda today is living proof that religiously oriented public intellectuals are not extinct.
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