James Wallace Birch

James Wallace Birch tells stories about people dangling by one finger from the ledge of society.

His writing has been described as smart, elegant, insightful and poetically bittersweet.

His cult-classic novel is Discontents: The Disappearance of a Young Radical. When a young radical disappears, what remains is not answers but an unsettling void — a mirror reflecting a country where certainty has collapsed, motives are opaque, and no one is sure whether conviction is a form of clarity or self-deception.

His follow up, If You Find Emory Walden, continues the hunt through for the missing radical through the author's eyes.