Wilma Archer – A Western Circular

A Western Circular was partly inspired by the writer John Fante’s The Bandini Quartet, a group of novels that revolve around a struggling Los Angeles writer named Arturo Bandini. “His work dives into [the idea of] embracing the inevitable, while also being terrified by it,” Archer says. “The books focus on accomplishments, and whether they matter at all. It taught me how to confront my own mortality at all times.”