![]() ![]() Each instance of this effect further distorts our overall field of view, our sense of who we really are. ![]() ![]() I try to be sensitive to this dynamic- The Music Man is all that millions of people will ever know about Iowa. There are plenty of towns everywhere, I guess, whose reputations beyond their borders, if they have any at all, reside in single instances of popular misrepresentation or outright caricature. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and sons. He is the writer, composer, guitarist, and vocalist for the band the Mountain Goats. Darnielle’s first novel, Wolf in White Van, was a New York Times bestseller, National Book Award nominee, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction his second, Universal Harvester, was also a New York Times bestseller and was a finalist for the Locus Award. The following is excerpted from John Darnielle's new novel, Devil House. ![]()
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