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A review by leahtylerthewriter
There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories by Brad Watson
See full review in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
"There is something enchanting about being immersed in Brad Watson’s stories, and it isn’t just the compelling use of magical realism he uses to soften life’s melancholy. After the Mississippi native’s unexpected death in 2020, his editor of 26 years, Alane Salierno Mason, penned a tribute on the website Lit Hub that summed up Watson’s ability to crawl inside the human experience: “He wrote like a composer, every note held for just the right amount of time to make it music.”
In Watson’s posthumously published collection of unconnected stories “There Is Happiness,” his archetype of the aching and empty middle-aged man filled with regret didn’t entirely get to finish telling his story. And the end result sings..."
https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/there-is-happiness-recalls-the-greatness-of-brad-watson/UU74VHF4DZDO5KTBLVKHHBTOAM/
"There is something enchanting about being immersed in Brad Watson’s stories, and it isn’t just the compelling use of magical realism he uses to soften life’s melancholy. After the Mississippi native’s unexpected death in 2020, his editor of 26 years, Alane Salierno Mason, penned a tribute on the website Lit Hub that summed up Watson’s ability to crawl inside the human experience: “He wrote like a composer, every note held for just the right amount of time to make it music.”
In Watson’s posthumously published collection of unconnected stories “There Is Happiness,” his archetype of the aching and empty middle-aged man filled with regret didn’t entirely get to finish telling his story. And the end result sings..."
https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/there-is-happiness-recalls-the-greatness-of-brad-watson/UU74VHF4DZDO5KTBLVKHHBTOAM/