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Talking with Clinton Crockett Peters by Elizabeth Cook, Carve

https://www.carvezine.com/from-the-editor/talking-with-clinton-crockett-peters

A beauty of essays, which is what I tend to write, the lineage I follow (Montaigne, Sei Shōnagun, Yoshida Kenko, Lia Purpura), is that chaos is meaningful. I love narratives, but the mind doesn’t work like that. Few people narrate their day. The brain doesn’t process chronologically; it’s a jumble of ideas, memories, fleeting cravings, and scattered conversations that are sometimes imagined. So that tension that you point to is, in fact, perfect for the essay form. Essays try to make sense of something baffling; they chew on an idea until it is digestible. Sometimes it doesn’t end well. Sometimes, essays fail. A mystery remains, while at the same an essay succeeds at creating resonance. There is no way I have here made sense of the chaotic aspect of existence—that nothing, ultimately, goes to plan despite what we tell ourselves. However, that feels human, doesn’t it?

Didion famously and enigmatically wrote “we tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Maybe, if entropy is the other side of life—the embracing of inevitable chaos—we write essays to help us die…

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Interview with Clinton Crockett Peters with Tyler Parsons and Candice Boren, Inscape Magazine

https://inscape.byu.edu/2020/08/20/interview-with-clinton-crockett-peters/

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"Misfits on the South's Frontiers," with Sarah Viren, Oxford American

https://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/1550-misfits-on-the-souths-frontiers

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On Cockroaches, Kudzu, and the Eco-Essay by Amanda Yanowski, Essay Daily

https://www.essaydaily.org/2018/07/on-cockroaches-kudzu-and-eco-essay.html

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"Monsters Are Fun: Talking with Clinton Crockett Peters" by John Flynn-York, The Rumpus

http://therumpus.net/2018/07/the-rumpus-interview-with-clinton-crockett-peters/

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"How a Texas Author Learned to Love Cockroaches..." by Jonathan Liebson, Texas Observer

“How a Texas Author Learned to Love Cockroaches (and Other Tales of Off-Putting Creatures)”

https://www.texasobserver.org/how-a-dallas-author-learned-to-love-cockroaches-and-other-tales-of-off-putting-creatures/

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"a conversation with clinton crockett peters" by Morgan Davis, Proximity Magazine

http://true.proximitymagazine.org/2018/05/24/clintoncrockettpeters/

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Talking with Clinton Crockett Peters by Elizabeth Cook, Carve
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Interview with Clinton Crockett Peters with Tyler Parsons and Candice Boren, Inscape Magazine
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"Misfits on the South's Frontiers," with Sarah Viren, Oxford American
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On Cockroaches, Kudzu, and the Eco-Essay by Amanda Yanowski, Essay Daily
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"Monsters Are Fun: Talking with Clinton Crockett Peters" by John Flynn-York, The Rumpus
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"How a Texas Author Learned to Love Cockroaches..." by Jonathan Liebson, Texas Observer
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