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 ...

Author Claire Vaye Watkins was awarded the Story Prize in New York on Wednesday evening for her debut collection, “Battleborn.” As winner she receives $20,000. Two finalists for the prize -- Dan Chaon ...

The autobiographical narrator of Claire Vaye Watkins’s “I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness” says that she took the arresting title for her book from a tattoo that ran across an ex-boyfriend’s ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...