(Nothing thrilled Pat more than stumbling on a terrific new writer.) I wondered the same thing, and the unnerving beauty of The Sheltering haunted me for months. “Where’s this guy been all my life?” I remember Pat asking as we sat on his porch discussing this great find. Moody, complicated, and deeply disturbing, it rang with the dissonant harmonies of a profound new southern voice.
I was working as Pat’s assistant at the time, and Pat and I both thought Mark’s manuscript was nothing short of brilliant. I discovered Mark through his novel The Sheltering, published by Pat Conroy’s Story River Books in 2014. Mark Powell is one of my favorite mysteries.
“After reading Pat Conroy the first time I began to understand there was a larger world I could read my way into, and it was like discovering water at the same moment you realize you are dying of thirst.”įollowing this Porch Talk interview, read an exclusive excerpt from Mark Powell’s essay on Pat Conroy, “The Extended Hand.”
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