With Darnielle here, the reading takes on another color. She's here to publicize her fourth and newest novel, Landline, the story of a marriage on the rocks, a suffocating friendship, and a magic telephone. All the way from Omaha, Neb., where she writes, and lives with her husband and two young sons. He's reading tonight as well, from his debut novel Wolf in White Van, and that's why this isn't just any reading for Rowell. One of them, John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats, looks on from the audience. "I could not say I wrote this book because of The Mountain Goats," she says holding up her own copy of Eleanor & Park, "but I would not have written it without them." She meets the eyes of a fan clutching a copy of her novel Eleanor & Park in the audience at Housing Works Bookstore in New York City, then darts her focus down to her shoes. Rainbow Rowell can never look in one direction for long.
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