When I was a kid, I didn’t much care for books. I spent my time outside building forts, climbing trees, running from cows, and fishing. I can count the number of books I fell in love with as a kid on two fingers—Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet and Walter Dean Myers’s Fallen Angels. Unlike a lot of…
The Line That Held Us by critically acclaimed author David Joy is a remarkable novel about the coverup of an accidental death and the dark consequences that reverberate through the lives of four people who will never be the same again. When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he’s chased for years, he never expected…
The way I heard it, William Gay came home one evening and found his girlfriend sitting at the kitchen table with his contributor copy of Harper’s in front of her, and the first words out of her mouth were, “What the fuck’s wrong with you?” While he’d been off hanging dry wall or painting houses,…
In The Weight of This World, David Joy returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful story about the inescapable weight of the past (available March 7, 2017). A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can’t leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he forgive himself for what he saw…
