Welcome

I love sharing my stories (long and short) and updates once a month for subscribers. My fiction focuses on Americans and American culture: extraordinary stories about ordinary people. Good stories don’t, and shouldn’t have to, conform to the dominant aesthetics and politics. My background in STEM, the Western humanist tradition, and classical learning also influence my work: curiosity, creativity, and clarity.

I am the author of the novels October, In Another Sun, and Pepper’s Ghost and the short-story collections Inroads and A Fine Day Will Burn Through.

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See y’all soon.

William Auten