Gold, Fame, Citrus, Belonging, Possibility
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…
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Claire Vaye Watkins
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How Do You Contend with the Hubris?
For Salon, Teddy Wayne interviews six prominent authors on what has shaped their thoughts into word: with Lauren Groff, Alexandra Kleeman, Helen Phillips, Matthew Salesses, Steve Toltz, and Claire Vaye…
The Magic of Realism
I think the word realism hides our individual subjectivities of reality. In an interview with the Nashville Review, the talented Claire Vaye Watkins talks about her forthcoming science fiction novel…
This Week in Short Fiction
If you’re looking for something to read over the Fourth of July weekend, you’re in luck. This week gave us brand-new issues of Virginia Quarterly Review and PANK to peruse in…
This Week in Short Fiction
Chalk it up to a week where Twitter just felt like too much. Chalk it up to good ol’ nostalgia for the feel of a hefty book in your hands.…
This Week in Short Fiction
Robert Stone’s fictional universe was vast. The minds of Vietnam vets. Sailors on the open sea. Hidden romances at a prestigious university. But last weekend, one of our better explorers…
This Week in Short Fiction
Every good story is rooted in conflict, and most of us learned the different types of conflict in our high school literature classes like clockwork, year in and year out:…
Battleborn, by Claire Vaye Watkins
A Nevada native myself, I’ve walked through the same ghost towns as Watkins, driven the same barren stretches of asphalt.