Hub City to publish Caleb Johnson's sophomore novel TELEGRAPH ROAD

Hub City Press is thrilled to announce it will publish Caleb Johnson's sophomore novel, Telegraph Road, in the fall of 2027.

Telegraph Road turns a Sebaldian lens on a family’s history in Southern Appalachia, using photographs (both archival and familial) and historical documents to blur the line between fact and fiction. With Telegraph Road, Johnson has created a kind of fiction of the archive to explore the legacy of generational trauma—the cycles of rural poverty and violence and grief—that hovered in the background of family stories. At once a work of imagination and of excavation, Johnson writes with deep empathy and a striking command of voice that places him firmly in the tradition of such Southern storytellers as Ron Rash and Brad Watson, transforming the outlines of family history into an elegy for a bygone world.

Caleb Johnson's first novel, Treeborne, received an honorable mention for the Southern Book Prize. His nonfiction has been cited in Best American Essays, and appears widely in newspapers and magazines. A graduate of The University of Alabama and The University of Wyoming, he teaches at Appalachian State University and lives in Boone with his family.