Terry Gross

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22,677 appearances 394 recordings 17 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 4d ago

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Life in the Mojave Desert / Director of ‘The Uprising’ · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

Her stories and novels are rooted in the American West, that awesome expanse of dunes and deserts that uninformed observers would call empty. voice-verified

Where life has adapted to the damning conditions of heat and drought, Watkins finds characters burned away to their elemental anxieties and desires. voice-verified

Clairvey Watkins, welcome to Fresh Air. voice-verified

Happy to have you. voice-verified

So, um, can you describe the part of the desert that you live in and what the environment is like? voice-verified

will be the understatement of the voice-verified

So where you described it's also around where you grew up and it's also where the main character of your new novel lives. voice-verified

So now I want you to describe how it's being developed. voice-verified

So in the novel there's a small group of protesters who want to stop this development of the desert. voice-verified

But the novel really does ask the question, like, what's the point? voice-verified

They're not gonna win. voice-verified

There aren't a lot of people around to watch, there's not a lot of media around to report it. voice-verified

They're in the desert. voice-verified

So what are your thoughts about that? voice-verified

You grew up near where there were a lot of atom bomb tests and also near where there's a a big disposal site for nuclear waste. voice-verified

So how aware of that were you when you were growing up? voice-verified

Were you able to hear the blast go off like the did you voice-verified

know when it was happening and were you warned by the government when it was happening? voice-verified

So by voice-verified

So in each of your last two novels, the main character decides to live far away from her young daughter in the new novel voice-verified

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