Join us Tuesday, June 24 at 5:30 pm for an evening with author Dan Leach to celebrate the release of Junah at the End of the World (Hub City Press, $18). Local poet and podcaster Phil Canipe will join Dan for a dialogue about his work.
About the book:
When twelve-year-old Junah Simmons walks into his middle school classroom in September 1999, the chalkboard reads THE END OF THE WORLD IS HERE.
In the months leading up to Y2K, Junah’s eccentric teacher tasks each of her students to make a time capsule in a shoe box to document their experiences in South Carolina at the end of the world.
Junah is an outsider at school, the kid in sunglasses with a speech impediment. Through the time capsule project, he sifts through the tough stuff: his parents’ divorce; Rusty, the school bully; Sadie, his punk crush who doesn’t know he exists; his mother’s pressure on him to turn to Jesus; his worry and loneliness. Rendered in vignettes and scraps, this kaleidoscopic novel follows Junah as he confronts the catastrophes of youth while wrestling with the notion that the world itself could end in December.
About the Author:
Dan Leach has published work in The Massachusetts Review, The Southwest Review, and The Sun. He has two
collections of short fiction: Floods and Fires (University of North Georgia, 2017) and Dead Mediums (Trident, 2022). In 2023, Texas Review Press chose him for the Southern Poetry Breakthrough Award and released his collection Stray Latitudes (2024). He lives in the lowcountry and teaches writing at Charleston Southern University.
Phil Canipe lives in Charleston, SC where he runs a small family business. His work is forthcoming in The Downtime Review, Little Old Lady Comedy, and A Thin Slice of Anxiety. lives in Charleston, where he runs a small family business. His work is forthcoming in The Downtime Review, Little Old Lady Comedy, and A Thin Slice of Anxiety. 
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