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Casey Walker, “Vigilância,” The Common magazine (Fall, 2020)
Casey Walker speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about his short story “Vigilância,” which appears in Issue 20 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Walker talks about writing World War II-era Lisbon through the eyes of a police informer who trades in secrets. Walker also discusses the complex nature of complicity in his novel Last Days in Shanghai, and the historical and personal background behind his current project Mexicali, a new novel set in the Mexican-American borderlands. Casey Walker is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and has a PhD in English Literature from…
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