Kent Wascom

Jun 27, 2024 | lithub.com | Kent Wascom

I never thought I’d write a Western, which might seem strange considering my first book’s set in the nineteenth century and features scummy dudes with guns riding around on horses. But technically that one’s a Southern Gothic. And yet, like so many Southern Gothic writers, I found myself at midcareer eyeballing the Western and its herd of subgenres.

Jun 5, 2024 | arcamax.com | Kent Wascom

A young woman with a golden arm and a dark reputation is giving away money.

May 28, 2024 | largeheartedboy.com | Kent Wascom

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Kent Wascom’s propulsive novel The Great State of West Florida is dark, fun, and prophetic.

May 24, 2024 | deepsouthmag.com | Kent Wascom |Nick Medina |Terah Shelton Harris |KB Brookins

It’s 2026, and Rally is 13 years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father’s people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, who long ago led a failed rebellion to carve their own state from the swamp and sugar-sand of the coast.

May 21, 2024 | bookshop.org | Jewish Currents |Kent Wascom

(Author) FORMAT FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Description From the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Post), a startling and unconventional neon-pink Western of vengeance, family, and first love as two warring factions vie for control of a blood-soaked Gulf CoastIt's 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old.