28 Authors, 28 Variations on a List: Day 17. Willy Vlautin
Day 17. Willy Vlautin. It was a Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver’s Too Much Water So Close to Home, that inspired Vlautin to start writing stories. He has published three novels in that spirit, The Motel Life (2007), Northline (2008) and Lean on Pete (2010), all characterized by what one reviewer called “melancholy …
