When people ask me how I came up with Friends of the Earth, I tell them I read T.C. Boyle.  We’re reading The Tortilla Curtain in my 101 classes.  We’re into his short story “Love of my Life” in English 1B. Somewhere in between, I found his environmentalist novel Friend of the Earth, and voila.  My students love his work.  They already love Stephen King.  Now, they have two favorite authors…