David was recently interviewed by author Tess Callahan for her substack, “Writers at the Well.” Read it here.

Here’s an excerpt:

What would you like readers to know about The Gospel According to Danny that might not be obvious from the jacket copy?

That even though it’s a pretty devastating book, it’s also a love story, written with tenderness and humor. Not a typical love story between the main characters, perhaps, but certainly between Danny and his daughters, between Lia and Terrence, and, in a manner of speaking, between Danny and himself.
There are no villains here, in other words. (Lia may seem like one at first glance, but she isn’t. She’s doing what she can to make things work.) Almost every difficult thing that happens in the book may be attributed to Danny’s lack of love for himself—and his recognition of that, by way of the landscape, brings him, and us, hope.

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