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Claire Holroyde

I am a creative director, writer, and storyteller living in the Philadelphia metro area. THE EFFORT is my first novel.

My short fiction

“Joint Readiness” first published as part of a web series by Akashic Books

“Zeitgeist” first published on transatlantic webzine The Bees Are Dead

“The Unexamined Life” an interactive narrative in collaboration with designer Levi Hammett, who is the best visual designer I’ve had the luck of knowing personally. The project was first featured in Born Magazine and later in a group exhibition & DVD catalogue of Festival de Arte Digital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Books I am reading

The Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Future by Naomi Alderman
Wool by Hugh Howey
The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
The Peripheral by William Gibson
Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Mission by David W. Brown
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
Appleseed by Matt Bell
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Blowing Up Russia by Yuri Felshtinsky
Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American by Ian MacAllen
Ghost Species by James Bradley
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman & Admiral James Stavridis USN
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Shows I am watching

Fallout on Prime
The Three-Body Problem on Netflix
For All Mankind on Apple+
Slow Horses on Apple TV+
Foundation on Apple TV+
Silo on Apple TV+
Sens8 on Netflix
Our Flag Means Death on HBO
The Bear on Hulu
What We Do in the Shadows on FX
The Power on Prime
From on MGM+
The Last of Us on HBO
The Peripheral on Amazon
Reservation Dogs on Hulu
Russian Doll Netflix
Severance on Apple TV+
Station Eleven on HBO Max
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO

Movies I am watching

Dune: Part II

Leave the World Behind

Killers of the Flower Moon

Oppenheimer

Anatomy of a Fall

Zone of Interest

Social Media

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