Madeleine Watts
@madeleine_watts
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Writer. Novels ELEGY, SOUTHWEST ( 2025) and THE INLAND SEA (2021). Work in @believermag, @Harpers, @HEAT_journal, @lithub. Perpetual Australian.
Joined November 2015
ELEGY, SOUTHWEST is now available to pre-order in all three territories. It would mean a lot to me if you were to pre-order it through an independent bookstore! They are the life-blood of this industry, and made me who I am. [1/2] https://t.co/IFIuVL6aRd
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“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now.” In new fiction from Madeleine Watts (@madeleine_watts), jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy.
pioneerworks.org
When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.
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Berlin! I will at Lettretage tomorrow night (May 9), talking with Alex Wells about ELEGY, SOUTHWEST. Drinks + books for sale, admission free.
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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 @spectator
spectator.co.uk
Throughout her quietly compelling second novel, Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts conjures a sense of trundling steadily towards disaster. The narrator, a young Australian woman called Eloise, is...
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more about Vijay's book, as well as @madeleine_watts ' ELEGY, SOUTHWEST here: https://t.co/CEfPwmzhxM
minorliteratures.com
With The Passenger Seat and Elegy, Southwest coming out within weeks of each other, minor lits decided to capitalize on the coincidence and get novelist couple Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts tog…
Nice to see Vijay Khurana's debut here: would recommend very highly to you all!
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it was genuinely hard to express just how brilliant Madeleine Watts’ second novel Elegy, Southwest is. I reviewed it for @ftweekend, out tomorrow. https://t.co/vWiVeDzecZ
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“Both our novels interrogate the juxtaposition or paradox of being on the road with somebody”: A Conversation between Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts (@madeleine_watts) https://t.co/Z954LiaqOR
minorliteratures.com
With The Passenger Seat and Elegy, Southwest coming out within weeks of each other, minor lits decided to capitalize on the coincidence and get novelist couple Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts tog…
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Melbourne! This Thursday evening I will be launching Elegy, Southwest in Australia at @ReadingsBooks Emporium with @katherinebrabon. It would be lovely to see you there. Registration here: https://t.co/fJrRjFehsu
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Against a backdrop of climate change, @madeleine_watts' ‘Elegy, Southwest’ (@PushkinPress) is a lament for a world, a relationship, and the American road-trip novel, writes Abi Andrews https://t.co/O5wRtZd7Fy
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Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and environmental collapse. @UniofAdelaide
theconversation.com
Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and environmental collapse.
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i loved the inland sea and how it spoke about how it felt to be a young woman not just at a time of climate crisis, but at a time of heightened media coverage of violence against women. super excited for elegy, southwest:
theguardian.com
In her second novel Elegy, Southwest, the Australian author writes into the climate crisis from a millennial perspective with a mixed sense of melancholy and hope
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Elegy, Southwest is out in the UK today! Very grateful to everyone at @PushkinPress for guiding it into the world. I will be in London next week to launch the book at Daunt Hampstead on the 19th, and would love to see you there.
✨ EVENT ✨ Madeleine Watts (@madeleine_watts) will be in conversation with Chloë Ashby (@chloelashby) to discuss her latest novel Elegy, Southwest at @Dauntbooks Hampstead on the 19th of March. Tickets here:
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Madeleine Watts (@madeleine_watts) on falling for the American Southwest and writing its obituary
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Lovely @readingsbooks notice (by head buyer Alison Huber) for @madeleine_watts's Elegy Southwest: "...sad and funny, grand and intimate, informed and inquisitive, and above all, a beautiful piece of writing."
readings.com.au
Elegy, Southwest is a novel which entwines a tragic love story with an intelligent and profound consideration of the way we now live alongside environmental breakdown; an elegy for lost…
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Really looking forward to this from @madeleine_watts Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review – powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread Source: The Guardian
theguardian.com
A young couple encounter catastrophic fires and ruined rivers on a California road trip, searching for art and hope in a darkening world
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Fantastic reflection by @madeleine_watts on Sebald’s Rings of Saturn as an inspiration for her fine new novel Elegy, Southwest
lithub.com
In the final months of 2020, finding myself stranded by travel restrictions in Berlin, I re-read W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn. I had picked it out of my bookshelf and slipped it into my suitcase t…
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So grateful to have an excerpt - the very beginning - of ELEGY, SOUTHWEST published on @lithub
https://t.co/N7LWzGLSAP
lithub.com
Afterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks. You got up every morning and you just drove, with only the vaguest sense of where we would be sleeping thatnight. You d…
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.@madeleine_watts on the prescient genius of WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn. https://t.co/sbltjTxbKt
lithub.com
In the final months of 2020, finding myself stranded by travel restrictions in Berlin, I re-read W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn. I had picked it out of my bookshelf and slipped it into my suitcase t…
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We can't get enough of author @madeleine_watts's playlist for ELEGY, SOUTHWEST! https://t.co/nT7JE3UaX7
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Playlist · Madeleine Watts · 73 items · 25 saves
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“Afterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks.” Read from @madeleine_watts’s novel, Elegy, Southwest. https://t.co/zS3xMgzdIy
lithub.com
Afterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks. You got up every morning and you just drove, with only the vaguest sense of where we would be sleeping thatnight. You d…
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