On The Shelf
Anne McClard, ken andersonI write fiction, memoir, essays, and poetry, and am the author of two published novels, Butterfly Dreams and Margaux & the Vicious Circle.
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Postcard From a Marriage
This week, we thought we’d try something different—co-writing. We used to do it all the time. We hope you enjoy this piece as much as we enjoyed writing it. I think we’re better together. Happy Anniversary to us!
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The Shoes
This should have been posted earlier this week. Sorry about my delinquency. ken anderson, who claims not to be a writer, keeps writing great things! I love this one so much that it can’t wait.
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Today was Memorial Day, so I...
In Circulation
Maybe ken is warming up to Santa Fe :-) It’s a place where everybody knows his name. Maybe it’s beginning to feel a little like home.
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Looking for Beta Readers
I’m looking for a handful of thoughtful beta readers for a completed literary novel called Fiddler’s Point.
The novel sits somewhere between literary fiction, magical realism, family saga, coming-of-age story, and secret-history weirdness....
I Am Not Alarmed
Another fine tale of life in the high desert from ken anderson!
Our binoculars are nicer than these, and our car is not quite so dusty, but you get the idea. One could either use or sell binoculars, right?
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Anne McClard is the author of Butterfly Dreams (2023), and Margaux and the Vicious Circle (2024). Her third novel, Fiddler’s Point, will release sometime in early 2026.
Field notes from the overlap of anthropology, design, technology, and lived experience. Personal dispatches, cultural essays, and reflections from the ongoing project of figuring out how to live well inside complicated systems.
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