Brett Puryear

Author Archive

  • Aug 4, 2026
    I went to undergrad in my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and took a Contemporary Southern Lit course, in which we read Bobbie Ann Mason, Dorothy Allison, Jayne Ann Phillips, and...
  • Jun 26, 2026
    Life goes into new forms. — Neal Cassady, the epigraph from Denis Johnson’s Resuscitation of a Hanged Man Sometime in my mid-twenties I learned what it’d...
  • Apr 2, 2026
    There’s a particular genre of American art that shines a slatted light across the loneliest places in this ever-vast country, spaces in which humans are inseparable from the...