On Friday 21st November, I'll be at Lettrétage in Berlin with my great pals @vijaykhurana.bsky.social and @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for an event hosted by @berlinwriters.bsky.social. Entry is free, come along if you're in town!

“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now. It got you in its tentacles.” In new fiction from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social, jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/te...

A new short story about pregnancy, jellyfish, and heat for Broadcast by Pioneer Works, available now: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/te...

Caught a 22-hour flight to Perth last week to attend a symposium on Helen Garner. Sometimes, as it turns out, it's very nice to meet your idols! madeleinewatts.substack.com/p/helen-garn...

"Part of why I loved the diaries is that in the diaries the character of ‘Helen’ emerges in full force, fictional and non-fictional all at once". @madeleinewatts.bsky.social on her encounter with Helen Garner at 22, and ever since... madeleinewatts.substack.com/p/helen-garn...

A return to Substack because I have new Thoughts on making art and having children. madeleinewatts.substack.com/p/revisiting...

I’m talking to Vijay Khurana about his extremely tense and impressive novel THE PASSENGER SEAT (Peninsula) on Thursday 22 May at @burleyfisher.bsky.social. It’s the London launch. Free tickets! burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...

Wish I could go to this. A must for anyone in Berlin!

Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with @ajbwells.bsky.social about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.

I reviewed (and loved) Madeleine Watts’ second novel, Elegy, Southwest, which is thoughtful and quietly compelling, and conjures the familiar sense of steadily trundling towards disaster…. In this week’s @thespectator1828.bsky.social www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

it was genuinely hard to express just how brilliant Madeleine Watts’ second novel Elegy, Southwest is. I reviewed it for @financialtimes.com in the Weekend Mag out tomorrow. www.ft.com/content/8ec8...

madeleine watts and i are just two millennial ladies who wrote sad climate road-trip novels so this was an esp. fun interview thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

"Part of falling in love, and the foundation of the relationship, was the fact that we were both writers, and both really liked one another’s writing. That was woven into the fabric of the relationship ..." — @madeleinewatts.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/04/01/b...

“Both our novels interrogate the juxtaposition or paradox of being on the road with somebody”: A Conversation between Vijay Khurana (@vijaykhurana.bsky.social) and Madeleine Watts (@madeleinewatts.bsky.social) minorliteratures.com/2025/04/01/b...

Melbourne! This Thursday evening I will be launching Elegy, Southwest in Australia at Readings Emporium with Katherine Brabon. It would be lovely to see you there. Registration here: www.readings.com.au/events/book-...

Against a backdrop of climate change, @madeleinewatts.bsky.social’s ‘Elegy, Southwest’ (@pushkinpress.com) is a lament for a world, a relationship, and the American road-trip novel, writes Abi Andrews www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/03/eleg...

Tomorrow!

Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and environmental collapse.

Elegy, Southwest is out in the UK today. If you’re in London next Wednesday, the 19th, I would love to see you at the launch at Daunt Books Hampstead. dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/...

"'Elegy, Southwest' (Simon & Schuster) is artful and beautifully written, as are the depictions of Southwestern wastelands and the life that somehow perseveres there." Reviewed by Meredith Boe

keep your eyes on minor lits to read Madeleine and Vijay discussing The Passenger Seat and Madeleine's Elegy, Southwest

Vijay’s book is out today in North America! A genius novel by the loveliest of men.

Lovely @readingsbooks.bsky.social notice (by head buyer Alison Huber) for @madeleinewatts.bsky.social's Elegy Southwest: "...sad and funny, grand and intimate, informed and inquisitive, and above all, a beautiful piece of writing." www.readings.com.au/product/9781...

A beautiful read on land art and climate change by @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/when...

Baltimore! Wednesday evening I will be in conversation with Jeannie Vanasco at Greedy Reads Remington. www.eventbrite.com/e/madeleine-...

Fantastic reflection by @madeleinewatts.bsky.social on Sebald’s Rings of Saturn as an inspiration for her fine new novel Elegy, Southwest lithub.com/wg-sebalds-r...

Beautiful novel by Madeleine Watts that I had the pleasure of reading as it was being written. Looking forward to reading in full when it’s published in the UK next month!

Very grateful to have this excerpt from ELEGY, SOUTHWEST - the very beginning - published on @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/elegy-southw...

"Sebald wanted it to be published in every category imaginable." I yearn for a return to the era when bookstores were arranged by publisher, not genre or category. One like that lasted in Durham N.C. until the early 2000's. Kudos @madeleinewatts.bsky.social for this essay.

Madeleine Watts @madeleinewatts.bsky.social in conversation with Nirica Srinivasan about the uneasy timeliness of her new novel ELEGY, SOUTHWEST - great conversation touching on #davidlynch #wimwenders #climatechange & much more #interlocutorinterviews interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/202...

@madeleinewatts.bsky.social on the prescient genius of WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn.

“Afterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks.” Read from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social’s novel, Elegy, Southwest.

The amazing early reception to Elegy, Southwest by @madeleinewatts.bsky.social! 💗 Out 13th March. A novel that entwines a tragic love story with an intelligent and profound consideration of the way we now live alongside environmental breakdown.

✨ EVENT ✨ Madeleine Watts (@madeleinewatts.bsky.social) will be in conversation with Chloë Ashby to discuss her latest novel Elegy, Southwest at @dauntbooks.bsky.social Hampstead on the 19th of March. Tickets here: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events/madeleine-watts-in-conversation-with-chloe-ashby/

Nice from @ghostspecies.bsky.social on @madeleinewatts.bsky.social's new novel, Elegy Southwest www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

This sounds excellent – can't wait to read when it comes out in Aus @madeleinewatts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review – powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread

Started reading this while the Californian fires raged. Apparently 100% contained now, but a sense of melancholy continues I think? A really affecting, timely novel this then by @madeleinewatts.bsky.social – (with a tip of the hat to Sebald) on the past & future of nature, art and us...

An absolute pleasure to read @madeleinewatts.bsky.social's new novel "Elegy, Southwest" and interview her about writing in the second person, the private grief of living a reproductive life in America, and ambiguous endings themillions.com/2025/01/made...

Finished copies of ELEGY, SOUTHWEST arrived this morning! Having hauled around thousands of book boxes as a bookseller at McNally Jackson for six years, the most emotional part of all this is seeing my name and title on the sticker.

Some thoughts on all the other books and films and pieces of art that I consider forebears to ELEGY, SOUTHWEST.

Anticipated reading: Elegy Southwest by BWW friend and instructor, Madeleine Watts! Coming in March.

Quite the time to be reading @madeleinewatts.bsky.social’s new novel…

Now the new year has begun the release of ELEGY, SOUTHWEST is imminent. If you’re keen on preordering, you can get a 25% discount for the next fortnight with this link from Tertulia, a much better option than ordering from other Terrible Companies that will go unnamed. tertulia.com/book/elegy-s...

The climate books you should put on your 2025 reading list, including new titles from: 🌱 @kpaoletta.bsky.social 🌱 @madeleinewatts.bsky.social 🌱 @frediotto.bsky.social 🌱 @drkatemarvel.bsky.social 🌱 @mikegrunwald.bsky.social 🌱 @peterbrannen.bsky.social

I didn’t write as much as I would have liked in 2024, but I did read a lot. Of the 143 I finished, these were the ones I loved and learned from the most.

Wow! Book mail day, already very good c/o @ryanruby.bsky.social, just became very very exciting: an ARC of MW’s much-anticipated second novel, Elegy Southwest! Very very grateful then @madeleinewatts.bsky.social (& promise to buy a finished copy early next year for you to sign!)

Astonishing that I am not actually a 55-year-old man.

2025 Preview Giveaway 🎇 🎆 Reading ahead?! We’re giving away exclusive proof copies of three of our most exciting books in early 2025 (details 👇👇👇)

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