Lowell's David Moloney Publishes First Book, Barker House

Photograph by debutiful.net. Chicken wing delivery man. Landscaper. Bartender. Bouncer. And now author. David Moloney’s worked myriad odd jobs but perhaps the most thought-provoking was his time working as a corrections officer in southern New Hampshire, which inspired his first novel. Barker House, a collection of wry, pensive short stories reminiscent of Olive Kitteridge—a collection praised by that book’s Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, no less—was released this spring during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and swirling tensions over law enforcement. But for Moloney’s characters, and himself, corrections has a lot of gra

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Lowell’s David Moloney Publishes First Book, Barker House

The North Shore author was inspired by his time as a corrections officer—and work with UMass mentor Andre Dubus III—for his first book.

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