John Darnielle on his new novel, Devil House

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this bonus episode, producer Andrew Gill interviews John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats about his most recent novel, "Devil House" and his previous two novels, "Universal Harvester" and "Wolf In White Van."

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0:00.0	Welcome to this bonus episode of sound opinions. I'm Jim Deregottis with Greg Cott, but today we are doing something we love to do, turning the mic over to one of our producers Andrew Gill.
0:11.3	What's up guys, How's it going?
0:14.0	We know what you're up to here, Andrew.
0:16.0	This is one of your all-time favorite artists, right?
0:19.0	Yeah, you might recall those couple of years when I kept bugging you guys over and over and over again.
0:24.7	It was years.
0:25.7	To have the mountain goats on the show?
0:28.1	You making us mixtapes continually trying to convince us, you know, look, and John Darniel is a fantastic interviewer,
0:36.0	indeed.
0:37.0	Yeah, we have them on the show in 2019,
0:40.0	listeners might remember it,
0:41.0	and since then there's been three albums so yeah I deal he is no
0:45.2	shortage and that was a great session with them today I have an interview with
0:50.0	him because he's got a new novel coming out called Devil House.
0:55.2	He's become very acclaimed as a novelist as well as, you know, the mountain goats being
0:59.8	viral on Tik-Tock lately, you know, there's a lot going on in the John Darniel
1:06.8	worlds. That is just a sentence I never thought I'd hear. Yeah, did you hear
1:10.9	about that? The Mountain Goatsats viral on Tik-Tok.
1:13.4	Yeah, it was a couple of months ago the one of the songs off their album, Telehassie.
1:18.4	No Children. It just started popping up and going off on Tik-Tok. People went crazy.
1:24.3	I am drowning.
1:26.3	There is no sign of land. You are coming down with me.
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