He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and sons. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent, dark, and deeply disquieting. And, indeed, in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video. He is the writer, composer, guitarist, and vocalist for the band the Mountain Goats. Universal Harvester: The haunting new novel from, John Darnielle. JOHN DARNIELLE is the author of Wolf in White Van, which was a New York Times bestseller, National Book Award nominee, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for first fiction, and widely hailed as one of the best novels of the year. As Jeremy and those around him are absorbed into tapes, they become part of another story-one that unfolds years into the past and years into the future, part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain. In Universal Harvester, the once-placid Iowa fields and farmhouses become sinister, imbued with loss and instability and foreboding. Two days later, another customer returns another tape-a new release this time-and says the same: “There’s another movie on this tape.” The job's nice enough, quiet and predictable, until a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets-an old movie, starring Boris Karloff-and registers an odd complaint: “There’s something on it,” she says, but doesn’t elaborate. It's the late '90s, and you can find Jeremy at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa, a small town in the center of the state. John Darnielle discusses his novel Universal Harvester, new in paperbackĪnother instant New York Times bestseller from the lead musician of The Mountain Goats, and "a stellar encore after the success of " (The Washington Post).
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