David Joy (author)

David Joy
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Born (1983-12-11) December 11, 1983
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Occupation Novelist
Nationality American
Education Bachelor of Arts
Alma mater Western Carolina University
Notable works 'Where All Light Tends to Go
Notable awards Edgar Award Finalist[1]
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Website
www.david-joy.com

David Joy (born December 11, 1983), is an American novelist[2] and short story writer.

Career

David Joy is the author of the Edgar award nominated[1] novel Where All Light Tends To Go (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2015),[3] as well as the novels The Weight Of This World (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2017)[4] and The Line That Held Us (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2018).[5] He is also the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman's Journey (Bright Mountain Books, 2011),[6] which was a finalist for the Reed Environmental Writing Award and the Ragan Old North State Award.

Joy is the recipient of an artist fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council.[7] His writing has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, such as Garden & Gun, Time (magazine)[8], and The New York Times Magazine.

He lives in Webster, North Carolina.[9]

List of works

Novels

Memoirs

  • Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman’s Journey (2011)[6]

Short Stories

  • “Stink Bait.” Writer’s Bone (March 10, 2016).[12]
  • “Burning Off Into Forever.” Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia. Eds. Larry Smith and Charles Dodd White. Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 2015. 40-46.[13]
  • “What Cannot Be Carried Alone.” Still: The Journal, Issue 18 (Spring 2015).[14]
  • “The Line That Held Us.” Pisgah Review, 7.1 (Winter 2013): 26-34.
  • “The Stars Shall Withdraw Their Shining.” Flycatcher, No. 3 (Summer/Fall 2013).[15]

Essays

  • "Hunting Camp." Time (magazine) (August 6, 2018).[16]
  • "At The Crossroads." The New York Times Magazine (April 8, 2018): 48-53.[17]
  • "Good Dog: Mutually Reclusive." Garden & Gun (Dec. 2017/Jan. 2018): 87-90.[18]
  • "A Charlotte Native Remembers Fish Camps." Charlotte Magazine (November 2017): 54-59.[19]
  • "Digging In The Trash." The Bitter Southerner. 2 May 2017.[20]
  • “On Darkness." Criminal Element. 13 March 2017.[21]
  • “This Caravan Rolls On." The Quivering Pen. 6 March 2017.[22]
  • “My Privilege, Our Problem." Charlotte Magazine. 22 Sept. 2016.[23]
  • “One Place misUnderstood.” The Huffington Post (reprint). 23 June 2016.[24]
  • “One Place misUnderstood.” Writer’s Bone. 21 June 2016.[25]
  • “The Last Hotdog I Ever Ate.” Charlotte Magazine (October 2015): 37-40.[26]
  • “The Man Who Carried Snakes.” The Good Men Project. 15 August 2015.[27]
  • “The Long Row.” Drafthorse Literary Journal 1.2 (Summer 2012).[28]
  • “Creatures of Fire.” Smoky Mountain Living 10.3 (Summer 2010): 44-47.[29]
  • “Sound of Silence.” Smoky Mountain Living 10.1 (Winter 2010): 42-45.[30]
  • “Native.” Smoky Mountain Living 9.4 (Summer 2009): 54-56.[31]
  • “Breaking in the Cork.” Wilderness House Literary Review 4.1 (Spring 2009): 1-9.[32]
  • “Tired and Feathered.” Bird Watcher's Digest 31.2 (Nov/Dec 2008): 80-82.

Translations

  • Là où les lumières se perdent. Paris: Sonatine Editions, 2016. (French; first edition)[33]
  • Le Poids du monde. Paris: Sonatine Editions, 2018. (French; first edition)[34]

Awards

  • 2018 WCSA Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing (The Weight Of This World)[35]
  • 2017 Le Prix du Balai de Bronze for Là Où Les Lumières Se Perdent (Where All Light Tends To Go)[36]
  • 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Longlist for Where All Light Tends To Go'[37]
  • 2016 Edgar Award Finalist for Best First Novel[1]
  • 2016 Macavity Awards Finalist for Best First Novel[38]
  • 2015 SIBA Pat Conroy Book Award Finalist, The Lords of Discipline Thriller Prize[39]
  • 2015 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award Finalist[40]
  • 2012 Ragan Old North State Award Finalist[41]
  • 2012 Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist
  • 2011 Roosevelt-Ashe Conservation Award Finalist[42]

Interviews

Interviews with the author.

  • Los Angeles Review of Books (September 24, 2018)[43]
  • NPR Weekend Edition with Lulu Garcia-Navarro (August 12, 2018)[44]
  • WUNC North Carolina Public Radio's "The State Of Things" with Frank Stasio (August 10, 2018)[45]
  • PANK Magazine (September 19, 2017)[46]
  • NPR Weekend Edition Sunday with Lulu Garcia-Navarro (July 23, 2017)[47]
  • The Huffington Post (March 30, 2017)[48]
  • Georgia Public Broadcasting's "On Second Thought" (March 13, 2017)[49]
  • WREK 91.1 Atlanta's "North Avenue Lounge" (March 13, 2017)[50]
  • Mystery Tribune (Feb. 17, 2017)[51]
  • Nyctalopes (Sept. 26, 2016)[52]
  • Huffington Post (March 9, 2015)[53]
  • Kirkus Reviews (March 6, 2015)[54]
  • Appalachian Heritage (Feb. 6, 2015)[55]
  • Southern Literary Review (March 3, 2015)[56]
  • Watauga Democrat (Feb. 11, 2015)[57]
  • Writer's Bone (March 3, 2015)[58]
  • Entropy Magazine (March 1, 2015)[59]
  • Largehearted Boy (March 3, 2015)[60]
  • Chapter 16 (April 22, 2015)[61]
  • WUNC North Carolina Public Radio (March 11, 2015)[62]
  • Smoky Mountain News (March 3, 2015)[63]
  • Citizen Times (Feb. 28, 2015)[64]

Television Appearances

  • University of Delaware's National Agenda Series, "As We Stand Divided" (September 20, 2017)[65]
  • Alabama Public Television, "Book Mark" (March 7, 2017)[66]
  • Arizona PBS, "Books & Co." (May 21, 2015)[67]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cogdill, Oline H. "2016 Edgar Award Winners". mysteryscenemag.com.
  2. ↑ "David Joy - Penguin Random House". penguinrandomhouse.com.
  3. 1 2 "Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy - PenguinRandomHouse.com". penguinrandomhouse.com.
  4. ↑ "The Weight of This World by David Joy - PenguinRandomHouse.com". penguinrandomhouse.com.
  5. ↑ http://david-joy.com/books
  6. 1 2 "Growing Gills". blairpub.com.
  7. ↑ LLC, Zencos Consulting. "Welcome to the Arts in North Carolina!". ncarts.org.
  8. ↑ http://time.com/5349472/david-joy-hunting-camp/
  9. ↑ "David Joy's Biography". david-joy.com.
  10. ↑ "The Weight of This World by David Joy - PenguinRandomHouse.com". penguinrandomhouse.com.
  11. ↑ "The Line That Held Us". david-joy.com.
  12. ↑ "'Stink Bait'". writersbone.com.
  13. ↑ Offutt, Chris; Holbrook, Chris; Manilla, Marie; Willis, Mary Sue; Arnoult, Darnell; Powell, Mark; Barnes, Rusty; Sipple, Savannah; Mesha, Marena; Sealy, Jon; Townsend, Jacinda; Brown, Taylor; Mullins, Celia; Joy, David; Brock, Matt (7 June 2015). White, Charles Dodd; Smith, Larry, eds. "Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia". Bottom Dog Press – via Amazon.
  14. ↑ http://www.stilljournal.net/david-joy-fiction.php
  15. ↑ "Flycatcher". flycatcherjournal.org.
  16. ↑ http://time.com/5349472/david-joy-hunting-camp/
  17. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/magazine/gun-culture-is-my-culture-and-i-fear-for-what-it-has-become.html
  18. ↑ http://gardenandgun.com/articles/mutually-reclusive/
  19. ↑ http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Magazine/November-2017/Essay-A-Charlotte-Native-Remembers-Fish-Camps/
  20. ↑ "Digging in the Trash". THE BITTER SOUTHERNER.
  21. ↑ Joy, David. "On Darkness: Why I Write the Stories I Do by David Joy". www.criminalelement.com.
  22. ↑ Abrams, David (6 March 2017). "My First Time: David Joy".
  23. ↑ "Essay: My Privilege, Our Problem". charlottemagazine.com.
  24. ↑ Author, Kim Michele Richardson (23 June 2016). "One Place misUnderstood - Huffington Post". huffingtonpost.com.
  25. ↑ "One Place misUnderstood". writersbone.com.
  26. ↑ "The Last Hot Dog I Ever Ate". charlottemagazine.com.
  27. ↑ "The Man Who Carried Snakes -". goodmenproject.com. 15 August 2015.
  28. ↑ "drafthorse - David Joy - The Long Row". lmunet.edu.
  29. ↑ "Creatures of fire". 1 June 2010.
  30. ↑ "Sound of silence". 1 January 2010.
  31. ↑ "Natives". 1 June 2009.
  32. ↑ http://www.whlreview.com/no-4.1/essay/DavidJoy.pdf
  33. ↑ Editions, Sonatine. "Là où les lumières se perdent - David Joy - SONATINE Editions". sonatine-editions.fr.
  34. ↑ http://www.sonatine-editions.fr/livres/Le-Poids-du-monde.asp
  35. ↑ https://wcstudiesassociation.wordpress.com
  36. ↑ http://www.concierge-masque.com/2017/10/14/remise-du-prix-du-balai-dor-2017/
  37. ↑ "42 American novels on the 2017 longlist - International DUBLIN Literary Award". www.dublinliteraryaward.ie.
  38. ↑ "Macavity Awards :: Mystery Readers International". mysteryreaders.org.
  39. ↑ "Authors 'Round the South - The Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize". authorsroundthesouth.com.
  40. ↑ "Orr, Ritchie to receive $1,500 Thomas Wolfe Award". citizen-times.com.
  41. ↑ http://www.ncpublications.com/comments/October%202012.pdf
  42. ↑ "Conservation Award Nominees".
  43. ↑ https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-room-for-the-lie/
  44. ↑ https://www.npr.org/2018/08/12/637551228/the-line-that-held-us-noir-in-appalachia
  45. ↑ http://www.wunc.org/post/looking-life-appalachia-through-noir-lens-0#stream/0
  46. ↑ https://pankmagazine.com/2017/09/19/appalachia-noir-fishing-interview-david-joy/
  47. ↑ https://www.npr.org/2017/07/23/538825520/digging-in-the-trash-how-poor-southerners-are-seen
  48. ↑ Hess, Scott Alexander (30 March 2017). "Author David Joy On Writing, Beauty and Controllably Losing Your Mind".
  49. ↑ Powers, Celeste Headlee, Sean. "Author David Joy Explores Trauma In Appalachia".
  50. ↑ "David Joy - North Avenue Lounge". northavenuelounge.com.
  51. ↑ "A Conversation with David Joy, Author of "The Weight of This World"". www.mysterytribune.com.
  52. ↑ "Entretien avec DAVID JOY " là où les lumières se perdent " chez Sonatine. – Nyctalopes". nyctalopes.com.
  53. ↑ Author, Mark Rubinstein; Tango", "The Lovers' (9 March 2015). "'Where All Light Tends to Go': A Talk With David Joy - Huffington Post". huffingtonpost.com.
  54. ↑ "David Joy - Kirkus Reviews". kirkusreviews.com.
  55. ↑ "Interview: David Joy - Appalachian Heritage". appalachianheritage.net.
  56. ↑ "Allen Mendenhall Interviews David Joy, Author of Where All Light Tends to Go - Southern Literary Review". southernlitreview.com. 3 March 2015.
  57. ↑ "An Interview with David Joy". wataugademocrat.com.
  58. ↑ "Country Discomfort: Author David Joy On Appalachian Noir and His Debut Novel". writersbone.com.
  59. ↑ "Getting Lit: Round 2 with David Joy". entropymag.org.
  60. ↑ "Largehearted Boy: Book Notes - David Joy "Where All Light Tends to Go"". largeheartedboy.com.
  61. ↑ "On Digging Clay, Selling Meth, and Paternal Domination". chapter16.org.
  62. ↑ Judge, Laura Lee, Phoebe. "David Joy's 'Where All Light Tends To Go'". wunc.org.
  63. ↑ Woodward, Garret K. "The Joy of Self-Destruction: WNC writer releases debut novel". smokymountainnews.com.
  64. ↑ "Neufeld: Outlaw tale is a modern Cashiers catastrophe". citizen-times.com.
  65. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN3AUiUqfCo
  66. ↑ Bookmark with Don Noble (20 March 2017). "Bookmark David Joy" – via YouTube.
  67. ↑ "Books & Co. - David Joy - Arizona PBS". azpbs.org.
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