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John Darnielle (/ d ɑːr ˈ n iː l / dar-NEEL; born March 16, 1967) is an American musician and novelist best known as the primary, and originally sole, member of the American band The Mountain Goats, for which he is the writer, composer, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist.
Apr 24, 2022 · John Darnielle, the leader—and, at times, the only member—of the band the Mountain Goats, writes songs that are narrative, literary, and full of recurring lyrical motifs: cruel stepdads,...
Oct 30, 2023 · More than 30 years after making his crackly first recordings as the Mountain Goats, the celebrated songwriter talks about defying his past without disowning it, sidestepping the obvious, and his ...
Jan 29, 2022 · From New York Times bestselling author and Mountain Goats’ singer/songwriter John Darnielle—“a master at building suspense” (Los Angeles Times)—comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, artistic obsession, and the dangers of storytelling in Devil House.
Jan 19, 2022 · John Darnielle’s new novel, “Devil House,” follows a true-crime journalist on the trail of a horror house gone wrong.
Jan 26, 2022 · Novelist John Darnielle — also singer-songwriter with the Mountain Goats — has a hero who wants to honor the victims he's writing about but doesn't much like them.
John Darnielle. Soundtrack: Paper Towns. John Darnielle was born in Bloomington, Indiana. Shortly after his birth, his mother and father moved to San Luis Obispo, as his father had gotten a job there. His parents divorced soon after, and his mother remarried to his stepfather who was physically abusive to both Darnielle and his mother.
