David Michael’s essays and reviews have appeared in the New Republic, America, the Paris Review Daily, and Books & Culture, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, where he works as a film producer.
Father Johan climbed up first, and I hoisted his rifle and backpack up to him. The tower, a box on stilts, was walled with rugs and blankets strewn about, but the cold cut everything, including my oversized boots and borrowed wool socks. It...
