My new novel, The Paraclete, was officially published on February 19, 2019, and launched the following Monday evening with a reading, discussion, and book-signing at Asheville's venerable independent bookstore, Malaprop's. More than fifty of my best friends turned out for the event. My only regret was the shortage of time for individual conversations. I wonder what everybody thought about my presentation. I began by reading a passage, not from The Paraclete, but from the begi