My neighbors all say the same words, they read the same newspapers, I am not a fool, I have a good memory…
J. D. Daniels is the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers’ Award and The Paris Review’s 2013 Terry Southern Prize. His debut book The Correspondence (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) was published in 2017. His work has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, n+1, Agni, Oxford American, Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere, including The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing.