Claire V. Watkins

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479 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 12 Sep

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Fresh Air · Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins on the beauty & brutality of the desert · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And that's why I need to keep going out there.

Well, I thought about this probably because my first memory is my dad dying when I was six.

That's really like where I begin in my story.

I mean, he was sick with cancer for a few years before he died.

And I don't really remember having a time where...

Death wasn't really a presence in my family, you know, that his absence like changed everything.

And I've come to feel pretty grateful for that, actually, because I have not...

I mean, I've made mistakes and lived foolishly as much as anyone has, but I have been gifted with not being quite perhaps as in as much denial of the fact of death as I might have otherwise been.

I don't know.

Our culture is so weird about death.

It's like they're opposite hands, but they're the same hands because there's, I don't know, as far as I can tell, there's a part of us that is, you know, infinite and divine, like we were talking about.

And then there's a part of us that's very finite and only here for a little while, as far as we know.

And we're in this body.

And I felt really grateful for that.

And it makes me want to live a good life.

It's called It's Been a Minute, and I love it, and I think you will too.

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Well, I live far away from my own young daughter for most of the time.

She's with me on breaks and on summer vacation.

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