A true crime writer struggles with his responsibility to the victims in 'Devil House'
Novelist John Darnielle — also singer-songwriter with the Mountain Goats — has a hero who wants to honor the victims he's writing about but doesn't much like them.
John Darnielle has made a career — well, two: he is both a National Book Award-nominated novelist and the lead singer-songwriter of a beloved indie band called the Mountain Goats — out of writing frankly about darkness. His most famous song's most famous line is I'm going to make it through this year if itHis first two novels, and , have protagonists who are white-knuckling their way through misery; Carmen María Machado that the latter traces "the dimensions of human loneliness and grief."
