Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from some fully imagined universe, of which we only get to see this haunting, enticing sliver.… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face.… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped.… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“What she wanted was really two things: to be elsewhere, and to be somebody else. Or at least a version of herself that had… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“This was not the state of mind I was accustomed to, at the outset of an expedition. But one does not fight the battles… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“At least things fucking happen in those books, she thought: it's not just people lying in bed and thinking about their fucking feelings .” — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
