Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claire Vaye Watkins near her home in Twentynine Palms, Calif. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) She returned to her native Mojave ...

Claire Vaye Watkins, the narrator of “I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness,” the new novel by the author Claire Vaye Watkins, has been having a rough time. When the book opens, she’s recently given ...

I LOVE YOU BUT I’VE CHOSEN DARKNESS. By Claire Vaye Watkins. Riverhead. 290 pages. $27. “I can’t play nice and don’t want to, but want to want to some days,” writes Claire Watkins, the protagonist of ...

Marcia Franklin talks with author Claire Vaye Watkins about her essay "On Pandering." Marcia Franklin talks with author Claire Vaye Watkins about her essay, "On Pandering," which relates her ...

EW described Claire Vaye Watkins' most recent novel, 2015's Gold Fame Citrus, as "psychedelic and scarily real." Her highly anticipated next book will deliver on that same promise — with so much more.

Arguably, no mode of writing has influenced the past decade of novels more than autofiction, a catchall term for books that call themselves fiction while claiming to be rooted, in some way, in their ...

It’s hot and windy in San Bernardino County’s High Desert when Claire Vaye Watkins answers the phone. The award-winning author of “Battleborn” and “Gold Fame Citrus” bought a home in a community ...

My low-slung rental car sways down a sand road before pulling up to the tidy, metal-seamed house in Twentynine Palms that author Claire Vaye Watkins has called home for the last year. Everywhere, ...