The Boston Globe
Down and out in Allston and BrooklineJoshua Glenn, Globe Staff
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IDEAS FIRST HEARD about local wunderkind Gabriel Boyer in 2001, when the 24-year-old Brookline High alum gave a series of lectures at Roxbury’s Berwick Research Institute art venue on romantic love, utopian thought, and causal reasoning, punctuated by his noodling on a Wurlitzer electric piano. Boyer, who works odd hours at the Coolidge Corner theater and a Newton after-school program, went on to found Bedroom Theater, a weekly happening in the bedroom of his Jamaica Plain loft. After taking his show on a bedroom-to-bedroom tour across America last summer, he dropped out of sight. But now he has reappeared, brandishing copies of “How to Tell the Living from the Dead” (Mutable Press), a self-published first novel in which a father belatedly attempts to convey to his estranged son what makes him tick. Ideas telephoned Boyer at home in Jamaica Plain.
