Forgotten Journey

The Promise

Claire Mullen is a writer and audio producer based in Mexico City. Her work has appeared in The Believer, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, New Life Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a 2019–2020 fellow with the National Book Critics Circle.

Claire Mullen

Distorting the Everyday: On Silvina Ocampo’s “Forgotten Journey” and “The Promise”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Claire Mullen is a writer and audio producer based in Mexico City. Her work has appeared in The Believer, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, New Life Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a 2019–2020 fellow with the National Book Critics Circle.