John Darnielle From The Mountain Goats Loves Mysteries As Much As You Do

Photo by Lalitree Darnielle/Image Courtesy of Macmillan Publishers

I first met John Darnielle in 1998 at a Vinyl Fever record store performance in Tallahassee, Florida. I’d been introduced to his singer-songwriter project, The Mountain Goats, in 1996 during my first year as a DJ at WVFS. Nothing For Juice was the album in heavy rotation at V89, Florida S…