Brett Puryear

Author Archive

  • Nov 10, 2025
    We’d stopped at a Buc-ee’s in Amarillo, Texas, me and what I’d call my Common Law Wife and our four-month-old son. Buc-ee’s is a massive, cartoon...
  • Aug 7, 2025
    Lee Clay Johnson, a young author of Southern Gothic fiction, was having a tough time getting his second novel picked up. Johnson’s agent shopped it for about two years, to...
  • Jul 31, 2025
    I pulled my copy of Airships off the shelf this morning. It’d gone top of mind again but I haven’t read a Barry Hannah story in maybe a few years. There was a...
  • May 21, 2025
    I held my MFA thesis reading at a roomy, warehouse-style coffee shop in Missoula, Montana, in the spring of 2015, standing at a podium double-fisting Rainier tallboys. I told the...
  • Mar 24, 2025
    Soon after Time Out of Mind rang back to life that cathedral bell in his wandering mind — his Genius Zone, or whatever you want to call it — Bod Dylan made some...