My first reading from I Will Not Leave You Comfortless will be Thursday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City.  (I'll finish reading at 7:40-ish for those of you who want to get home for the vice-presidential debate.)

Here's a picture I took on my parents' farm in 2005 and which reminds me of the chapter "In the Dark."