Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground
A short story by J.D. Daniels from the LARB Weather Issue about camping in the snow, shoveling snow, and dreaming of Death Valley.
J.D. Daniels is the winner of a 2016 Whiting Award and The Paris Review’s 2013 Terry Southern Prize. The Correspondence (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) was published in 2017. His writing has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, n+1, Oxford American, The Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere, including The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing.
A short story by J.D. Daniels from the LARB Weather Issue about camping in the snow, shoveling snow, and dreaming of Death Valley.
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