John Dufresne is the author of six novels, including Requiem, Mass., Louisiana Power & Light, Love Warps the Mind a Little, and No Regrets, Coyote, as well as two guides to writing fiction: The Lie That Tells a Truth and Is Life Like This? Among other honors, he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a professor in the MFA program at Florida International University. I Don’t Like Where This Is Going (W.W. Norton) continues the misadventures of therapist-on-the-run Wylie “Coyote” Melville. The witness to a death outside the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, and troubled by the ensuing cover-up, Wylie becomes a man on a mission, enlisting the help of his old friend, an ace card player and master magician, to help find answers.
