Brad Watson

“Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page,” Joy Williams writes in her introduction to this astonishing selection of Brad Watson's published and unpublished stories: “excellent, assured, funny, startling, heartbreaking, wild,” full of “freakish flair” and “melancholy realism” - stories that give us a “glimpse” of ourselves “so surprising, so...

'As unexpectedly beguiling as it is affecting' Daily Mail Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson's work has been as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Mississippi with a...

Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page, Joy Williams writes in her introduction to this astonishing selection of Brad Watson's published and unpublished stories: excellent, assured, funny, startling, heartbreaking, wild, full of freakish flair and melancholy realism—stories that give us a glimpse of ourselves so surprising, so varied yet...