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The Era of Not Quite

Douglas Watson’s debut story collection is chock-a-block with deaths, births, sea and land voyages, excursions to the library, philosophical asides, and things like wolves. People fall in and out of love, walk in and out of buildings, take two steps forward and two steps back. Futility is a theme of the book, but so is the necessity of trying.

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Praise for The Era of Not Quite

“Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson’s first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.”—Christine Schutt, author of Prosperous Friends

“Once upon a time, an acquaintance of Kurt Vonnegut, having read all of the writer’s books, accused Vonnegut of putting bitter coatings on very sweet pills, and I am here to level the same charge against Douglas Watson. Yes, this collection is a relentless catalogue of frailty, folly, and mortal misery, but if you look beyond the cholera, the neck wounds, the burning feet, the bleached bones, the voids, the caves, the deaths at sea, the stillborn babes, the senseless yearnings of the heart, the grief and despair and profound loneliness, then what you will find, reader, is a tender, lovely, elegant celebration of the very idea of life, of living. These are vital and exceptional tales.”—Chris Bachelder, author of Abbott Awaits

Publication Date: April 19, 2013
ISBN: 978-1-938160-10-3

FormatPaperback , Paperback (Signed)

Publication DateApril 19, 2013

ISBN978-1-938160-10-3

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About the Author

Douglas Watson’s debut collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite (BOA Editions, 2013), won the inaugural BOA Short Fiction Prize. He is also the author of a novel, A Moody Fellow Finds Love and Then Dies (Outpost19, 2014). Watson’s fiction has appeared in One Story, Fifty-two Stories, Tin House, Sou’wester, The Journal, Ecotone, Salt Hill, Epiphany, Catch & Release, and other publications. Watson has degrees from Swarthmore College, Brown University, and Ohio State University. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, the poet Michelle Y. Burke. For more information about Douglas Watson, visit douglaswatsonfiction.com.