Terry Gross

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23,660 appearances 401 recordings 17 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard yesterday

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

His role was procuring teenage girls, recruiting them to join the Manson family. voice-verified

Clara was six when her father died of cancer. voice-verified

In reviewing her new novel, former Washington Post book critic Ron Charles wrote Among the swelling collection of books confronting our imperiled planet, Claire Vay Watkins' fiction remains defiantly alive. voice-verified

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

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