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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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Corey Day

Corey Day asked David Joy:

Hey David, I went to your reading for a class at WCU last week, and I ended up really enjoying it. I now have a desire to read some literature from Western NC, but after finishing your book, I won't know where to look next. Could you suggest some author with books set in the area that I should read?

Gary

Gary asked David Joy:

David, there is a slight chance that you may remember my mentioning that the end of your novel reminded me of the end of Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me," in which the narrator makes a similar choice. Do you remember this discussion? It was before the book was published, but I had an "advance copy." I am not sure that I remember my own reasoning now, but it may be that Thompson's protagonist had a different mo

Barbara

Barbara asked David Joy:

I hope that you can help me?. I received an e-mail telling me that I had won a copy of Where all light Tends to Go. I have been waiting for over a month to receive the book but still nothing. I went to the website to mark it as "no received" but it keeps showing that I received it. I don't know who to e-mail for help. I was so looking forward to reading it. Also looking forward to reading My Sunshine Away.

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