Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of novels What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement, and rest area, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal, and Academic Assassins.
His new novel is Wake Up and Open Your Eyes.
Recently I asked Chapman about what he was reading. His reply:
Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian EvensonVisit Clay McLeod Chapman's website.
Evenson is known for his economy. Within his stories, there's never a sentence that feels unnecessary. There's no fat to his fiction.It's all lean, efficient and effective and profoundly unnerving. His most recent collection expands upon this at such an exponential rate, which may be due to the fact that there's just as much scifi here as horror. Explorations of liminality, autonomy and parenthood run throughout. The minimalism within each sentence ended up creating a chasm in my imagination, where there was so much space -- dark, black space -- to fill in the Hemmingway gaps. I feel like these stories are portholes into other worlds and Evenson truly introduced me to a whole new universe of things to be afraid of.
My Book, The Movie: The Remaking.
The Page 69 Test: The Remaking.
My Book, The Movie: Whisper Down the Lane.
Q&A with Clay McLeod Chapman.
The Page 69 Test: Whisper Down the Lane.
Writers Read: Clay McLeod Chapman (September 2022).
The Page 69 Test: What Kind of Mother.
Writers Read: Clay McLeod Chapman (September 2023).
--Marshal Zeringue
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