I’m reading The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake. Yes, that was his real name. He’s something of a cult figure who died by suicide aged 26. He was a West Virginia native and all his stories are set in that world. Reading them makes me realize that though I grew up in New Jersey and now live in New York, I spent more of my life - more than 20 years - in the Ohio Valley, than anywhere else, so I feel sort of at home in the stories.