The West for me is a haunted place. There are these mythic ghosts everywhere you go. I don’t know of a region that buys its own bullshit more so than the American West does.
Claire Vaye Watkins, author of short story collection Battleborn, on how her latest novel transformed from a “secret sand dune document” into Gold Fame Citrus.
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