Author David Joy has been gaining recognition for a pair of critically acclaimed novels, both set in rural Appalachia. With a third on the way, Joy has also been gaining national and international recognition as an essayist on Southern culture. Joy has a bright future penning dark novels but still finds himself perceived as being the kind of person he writes about, just because they share the same Southern drawl. “I got off a plane one time and I rode with a media escort somewhere out west and