You've lived in the Midwest, and now you're in New York City. His conversation with Chapter 16 has been edited for length and clarity. Taylor is an editor-at-large at The Sewanee Review, and he writes critical essays on his Substack, a blogging platform, called "sweater weather." He lives in New York City.
His forthcoming novel, "The Late Americans," will be published in 2023. His best-selling book of short stories, "Filthy Animals," won the 2021-22 Story Prize and has just been released in paperback. The Midwest - particularly Iowa and Wisconsin - has served as the primary milieu for his characters. "When you're too close, you can't really see it." "I didn't feel like I could write about the South because I was too close to it," he says. "FILTHY ANIMALS" by Brandon Taylor (Riverhead Books, 288 pages, $16).īrandon Taylor, the Alabama-born writer whose 2020 debut novel, "Real Life," was a finalist for the Booker Prize, tries to avoid setting his stories in the South.
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