♥ KEVIN CLOUTHER is the author of We Were Flying to Chicago: Stories (Catapult). His stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, J Journal, Joyland, and New Orleans Review among other journals, and he has contributed essays to The Millions, Salon, and Tin House. He has worked on the staffs of The Iowa Review and Meridian. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia and Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the recipient of the Richard Yates Fiction Award and Gell Residency Award.
He is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha Writer’s Workshop, where he serves as Program Coordinator of the MFA in Writing. His second story collection is forthcoming in 2023.
He lives with his wife and two children in Omaha.
five questions video journal
“I’ve been meditating for the last three years or so, and one of the mantras that gets shared over and over is that everything is simply happening, and consciousness… we’re just participating in this experience that we can’t necessarily understand on a really meaningful level. And we are not behind our faces. We are not inside a brain, inside a skull. We’re all just existing in the world.”
new fiction from maximum speed
At some point he would walk to her, or she would walk to him. Maybe they would walk to each other. Or maybe this was a dream, an entirely reasonable performance of the unconscious mind. She would think, upon waking, that was something. But it wasn’t anything, not yet. She was still deciding who she would be, and he was deciding too.”
read “strawberries” →
visual art
A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)
by Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1862. Currently on display at The Met Fifth Avenue →. View the full painting and history at the link.
kevin’s mix
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Cassandra Jenkins - Michelangelo
Bill Callahan/Bonnie Prince Billy - The Wild Kindness
Jens Lekman - A Sweet Summer’s Night on Hammer Hill
Max Richter - Vilvaldi, The Four Seasons: Summer 3-2022