Adam O'Fallon Price & Daniel Wallace

The maxim “write what you know” is always especially true for first novels, which tend to draw on their authors’ personal experience more directly than the books that follow. Chapel Hill novelist Adam O’Fallon Price didn’t set his first novel, The Grand Tour (Doubleday, 2016), in the ‘90s Chapel Hill indie-rock scene, where he led the buzzy band The Mayflies USA. But he did set it in the familiar context of a tour, though it was an author tour instead of a band tour. For his new book, The Hotel Neversink, he ventures into uncharted territory: a murder mystery that’s also a comi-tragic, multi-vocal, three-generation family saga, all unfolding in a hotel in The Catskill Mountains. “Not since Stephen King’s Overlook has a hotel hiding a secret been brought to such vivid life,” says author Lydia Kiesling. In this event, presented by The Regulator Bookshop at The Durham Hotel, O’Fallon Price is joined in conversation by renowned Chapel Hill author Daniel Wallace, with borscht-belt snacks, midcentury cocktails, and Charles Chace’s jazz guitar to set the tone.