Goodreads asked David Joy:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

David Joy I don't know that I'd travel to any fictional world. I'm very rooted to place. My home is Appalachia. I don't feel that sort of connection anywhere else. That being said, I love reading poets like Wendell Berry and Maurice Manning and Rebecca Gayle Howell and Denton Loving, novelists like Ron Rash and Silas House and Robert Gipe for that exact reason. They know these mountains. They have eyes and ears tuned to the details of this place, and so reading them is like shining a flashlight out of my back door. Their understanding helps me see this place more clearly.

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