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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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?
Help ken replace his sun...
Dispatches from the High Desert: #11
AI rendering of the scene on the Pearl Street Mall described in the article.
ken anderson and I don’t always experience places the same way as each other. We went back to Boulder recently, and this is what he came back with.
Help ken get...
Dispatches from the High Desert: #10
If you’ve ever tried to make dinner plans in Santa Fe on a Monday or Tuesday night, you’ll recognize where this begins. It begins at a bar and ends, well, at our place.
Buy ken a cocktail at La Reina
La Reina Bar at the El Ray Court
La...
An Excerpt (mine) and a Poem (not mine)
Last September, I posted a couple of short pieces drawn from a year when my family didn’t quite have a place to land. We lived in a tent for a time, then made our way across the country before ending up at a boarding house in Virginia Beach...
Dispatches from the High Desert: #9
Thank God for ken anderson, and thank ken anderson for providing another Dispatch from the high desert. I have been woefully absent from my writing duties on Substack lately. I’m writing, just not here. I’ve written six new songs, and six m...
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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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