{"id":825,"date":"2025-11-26T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/?p=825"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:41:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:41:36","slug":"claire-navratil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2025\/11\/26\/claire-navratil\/","title":{"rendered":"#74: Writing the Weird with Claire Navratil \u201825, English"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"579\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/11\/Claire-Navratil-web.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/11\/Claire-Navratil-web.jpeg 579w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/11\/Claire-Navratil-web-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/11\/Claire-Navratil-web-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In today\u2019s episode, our producer Ace sits down with Claire, an English major with a creative writing concentration, to discuss weird fiction, the Reed library\u2014and what may or may not lie beneath it\u2014and the complexities of being a college student in the modern era. 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Imagine a college that eats people, complete with a student reporter chasing the truth, a dash of ritual sacrifice, and a healthy helping of moral ambiguity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You won\u2019t want to miss Ace and Claire\u2019s conversation about how literary subgenres can critique capitalism, the difficulty of self-imposed deadlines, the importance of romanticizing one\u2019s life, and the idea that sometimes you have to be the one to go looking for the answers that they don\u2019t want you to find.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed community members can read Claire\u2019s thesis, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rdc.reed.edu\/i\/38514f29-e0e5-4d9e-b436-2f8b007d4665\">To Reap What is Sown<\/a>&#8221; online in the Electronic Thesis Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2219390081&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\" title=\"Burn Your Draft\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Burn Your Draft<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\/claire-navratil\" title=\"#74: Writing the Weird with Claire Navratil \u201825, English\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">#74: Writing the Weird with Claire Navratil \u201825, English<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s episode, our producer Ace sits down with Claire, an English major with a creative writing concentration, to discuss weird fiction, the Reed library\u2014and what may or may not lie beneath it\u2014and the complexities of being a college student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2025\/11\/26\/claire-navratil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,119],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episode","tag-english","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}