David Joy
As with a lot of writers, I start with character, so there was less an emergence of narrative than there was the birth of an image. I was with a friend at his hog pen and I was watching this big boar hog root around in the dirt when the image of Jacob McNeely lit in my mind. This friend of mine both hunts and traps hogs in the area where I live and he was explaining to me how they kill these hogs with a knife. It was in the middle of him explaining this to me that this very vivid image of a young boy kneeling over a hog and watching the last bit of light draw back in the hog’s eyes came to me. I was haunted by that image for a very long time, and then one day the character spoke.
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Hey David, I read your book Where all Light Tends to Go and it was one of my favorite reads! I was curious, do you have any recommendations? I Like Daniel Woodrell as well as similar authors such as Ron Rash, Cormac McCarthy, and really enjoy the Wiley Cash. If you get a minute and have a few recommendations, that would be greatly appreciated.
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