THE CORRESPONDENCE

The first collection from a Whiting Writers Award winner whose work has become a fixture of The Paris Review and n+1Can civilizatio n save us from ourselves? That is the question J. D. Daniels asks in his first book, a series of six letters written during dark nig hts of the soul. Working from his own highly varied experience?as a janitor, a night watchman, an adjunct professor, a drunk, an ext erminator, a dutiful son?he considers how far books and learning and psychoanalysis can get us, and how much were stuck in the mud. In prose w...[Read more]