Brad Watson
Brad Watson is the author of Last Days of the Dog-Men, winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His novel The Heaven of Mercury was a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award. His collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (2010) was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the St. Francis College Literary Award, and won the Fiction Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.
Articles
- Fallen Nellie: a novel excerpt
Fiction by Brad Watson
- Alamo Plaza
Maybe I had picked up on some general unhappiness. I don’t know. I do know that I spent much of my time worrying that something terrible and heartbreaking would happen.
- More a Part of Dying Than Delight: Joy Williams’s “Traveling to Pridesup”
An introduction to Joy Williams’s “Traveling to Pridesup”

