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Gold Fame Citrus
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Water and Wanting
Writing about a water shortage is handy for a writer like me who loves, when reading, to be swept away in plot but whose characters seem to prefer to sit…
Debunking Motherhood
By writing Luz as a reluctant maternal figure, Watkins has tapped into the lean but vital tradition of fictional ambivalent mothers. The Rumpus’s own Lyz Lenz tackles maternal ambivalence in fiction in a review…
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…
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…