The Shooting: A Novel Unnamed Press   Out now:   or "A novel of piercing power and unforgiving vision." — Electric Literature "An inventive, pointed, at times even majestic book." — The Nervous Breakdown "A timely and scathing indictment of our current gun-happy culture, cross-cutting hearts and minds in his incomparable take-no-prisoners style. Another stunner from Boice." — Elizabeth Crane Clayton Kabede is a regular New York City kid, the son of immigrant parents living in the basement unit of an upscale apartment building where his father works as the superintendent. Lee Fisher lives in the penthouse of that same building — wealthy, paranoid, and armed. One night while sleepwalking, Clayton knocks on Fisher’s door. A gun explodes. The Shooting is the story of the journey to this moment and the lives caught in its wake.

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SHORT FICTION "Man Opening His Wallet"   Short story in Fiction magazine in issue 62, out now

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SHORT FICTION "One Hundred Percent Doomed" Short story via Juked

The Good and the Ghastly: A Novel Scribner A wild satire of our own society, The Good and the Ghastly is a visceral novel centered on two people linked through violence, informed by Boice's unnerving sense of reality and pathology. "A great book" —Esquire "Amped-up…. Follows post-apocalyptic predecessors like A Canticle for Leibowitz in dramatizing man's genius for misconstruing history and compulsively repeating destructive mistakes." —Wall Street Journal Excerpt Reviews

NoVA: A NOVEL Scribner A stunning, darkly humorous, visceral novel set in the suburbs of Northern Virginia and centered on a teenager’s suicide. "The best novel to appear in the last five years." —Mike Lindgren, The L Magazine " Gripping, astonishingly accomplished novel" —Open Letters Monthly Excerpt Reviews

MVP: A NOVEL Scribner MVP is superstar Gilbert Marcus's life story—from conception to excessive privilege to immutable obligation to his act of incredible violence. "Stunning debut" —Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "An incredible novel" —Sherman Alexie Excerpt Reviews

Photo by Michael Turek              My novels are: The Good and the Ghastly (Scribner, 2011), NoVA (Scribner, 2009), MVP (Scribner, 2007) and The Shooting (Unnamed Press, 2016). My work has been in Esquire, McSweeney’s, Fiction, Salt Hill, Post Road, Salon, RollingStone.com and other places. I live in Jersey City, NJ. Contact: Agent: David Granger @ Aevitas Creative Management Email: jamesboice.writer@gmail.com