Douglas Ryan Favero

Fiction, poetry, photographs, and films.

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New Cities: a dark cobbled lane in Strasbourg with handwriting across the image
Photographs and a poem · 10 pieces

New Cities

Ten photographs from one day in Strasbourg, 27 January 2018, each carrying lines from a poem written that day.

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Douglas Ryan Favero standing with his arms crossed in a dim room beside a window
About

Welcome. My fiction has appeared in Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, my photographs in The Wall Street Journal and El País México, and my essay on No Country for Old Men in The Cormac McCarthy Journal.

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Psychological suspense · Campus novel

A Gifted Young Man

Seattle, fall 2001. Barry Evans just wants to be a witness to the truth, a writer in the line of Emerson and Ellison. But when he chances upon the manuscript that makes his mentor’s entire career a sham, he finds out telling the truth is not as easy as it seems, and will cost him the only thing that matters to him.

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