John’s latest essay, “On Going to My Sixtieth High School Reunion, or What I Think About While Running Uphill” will soon be published in the tenth anniversary issue (Vol. 16) of The Dark Mountain Project. The essay is a meditation on aging, adolescent selves, authoritarian rulers, environmental super-villains, the dinosaurs who were too big to get on Noah’s Ark, and getting together with old classmates in the afterlife.
Reading at the Stanley Community Library
John will read new fiction at the Stanley Community Library Saturday, October 12 at 6:00 p.m. The themes of his short story, “Getting Wood,” resonate with the library’s October Book Club selection, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande.