Peter Jernigan's not trying to find himself, he knows himself. When you're brought up by weak people and fraternize with weak people, you tend to have an inclination to be weak yourself unless you do something about it. He's a jackass and doesn't know any other way to be. Gates's Jernigan might be one of the most relate-able yet horrible characters ever. Here he is a member of the Dog House Band, performing on the guitar, pedal steel, and vocals. He teaches in the graduate writing program at The University of Montana as well as at the Bennington Writing Seminars. Until 2008, he was a senior writer and editor in the Arts section at Newsweek magazine, specializing in articles on books and music. He has published short stories in The New Yorker, Tin House, Newsweek, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Rolling Stone, H.O.W, The Oxford American, The Journal of Country Music, Esquire magazine, Ploughshares, GQ, Grand Street, TriQuarterly, and The Paris Review. This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls (1998), and two short story collections, The Wonders of the Invisible World (1999) and A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me (2015).
His first novel, Jernigan (1991), about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1992 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. David Gates (born January 8, 1947) is an American journalist and novelist.
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