Brad Watson

Jul 16, 2024 | lithub.com | Joy Williams |Brad Watson

Brad was Brad Watson’s middle name. The name he was supposed to go by was Wilton. Wilton Watson. What a mouthful. What could such a name portend for a white Mississippian born in the summer of 1955? Well, anything could happen and some things even did. Article continues belowHe didn’t dream of becoming a writer, certainly. A presence on stage or screen perhaps. He was good-­looking, a bit roguish. He had charm, that Southern charm.

Jul 9, 2024 | ajc.com | Leah Tyler |Brad Watson

There is something enchanting about being immersed in Brad Watson’s stories, and it isn’t just the compelling use of magical realism he uses to soften life’s melancholy.

May 15, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Jo Hamya |Kevin Barry |Sarai Johnson |Brad Watson

Jo Hamya. Pantheon, $26 (240p) ISBN 978-0-593-70103-4Hamya’s provocative second novel (after Three Rooms) lays bare a family’s fraught relationships over the course of an afternoon at the theater. Sophia’s father, a successful novelist, attends a matinee performance of her play, having no idea until it begins that it’s about him. The play recounts a summer holiday in Sicily a decade earlier, when Sophia was 17 and her father insisted she take dictation for the novel he was writing.

Apr 5, 2023 | hannapub.com | Brad Watson

Can you be afraid and joyful at the same time? Consider the following statements. I am joyful and afraid to go to the doctor. I am joyful and afraid to start a new job. I am joyful and afraid to meet new people. I am joyful and afraid to move. I am joyful and afraid to forgive. Because of Easter, you can be joyful and afraid at the same time. I remember anticipating the birth of our first born, a beautiful girl. The nursery room was freshly painted, decorated, and furnished.