In Conversation: Craig Clevenger with Claire Phillips

Traumatized Masculinity and the Dark Romanticism of Craig Clevenger

Craig Clevenger, a West Coast literary darling, notable for his inventive foray into the phantasmagoric with his early novels of neo-noir has dropped another glimmering, ruminative addition to his literary genre-bending oeuvre. Join our conversation in my interview and read about his latest crime novel Mother Howl in the Brooklyn Rail's June 2024 issue.  

And It Was Running Thin

Read the chapter excerpted from my memoir A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia at Joyland Magazine's website.

"The Stories That Save Us," a nonfiction work for Vol. 1 Brooklyn essays

“Don’t worry Claire, you have my genes.” This said by my British astrophysicist father when I called to ask why he had failed to disclose my mother’s actual mental health diagnosis for several years. A man so reticent I didn’t even know he held the John D. MacArthur professorship at Caltech until I did a bit of sleuthing for my memoir, A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia.

You can read the essay here.