“[A] performance full of wit and rigor freed of the familiar polarizing semantics”
— New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“[A] very serious story about the perniciousness of conspiracy thinking, wrapped in a very funny yarn about the shallowness of celebrity culture”
— Washington Post
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New & Recent Writing
- “What About This” – print only Short story in The Harvard Review #62 (Fall 2024)
- “The Lines, They Are A-Changin'” – Lost in the Dylan Archive for Bookforum (Fall 2024)
- “The Bridge After It’s Gone” – print only Novella in ZYZZYVA #128, “The Long Form” issue
- “Local Depressive Bisexual Experiences Quarter-Life Crisis” (on Madison Newbound’s Misrecognition) – The New York Times Book Review (July 29, 2024)
- Brad Watson’s stories refreshed the Southern literary tradition” – The Washington Post (July 18, 2024)
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