Double Toil and Trouble is the first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by beloved Arkansas writer Donald Harington (1935–2009). Featuring the long-lost suspense novel of the title and four previously unpublished or uncollected stories, this volume adds several new chapters to the saga of Stay More, the fictional Ozarks village that serves as the setting for more than a dozen other Harington novels.

Edited by longtime Harington scholar Brian Walter, Double Toil and Trouble also includes an appendix featuring the author’s spirited correspondence with the editor who originally inspired the title novel, providing an insider’s look at the American literary scene and Harington’s own early assessment of his work. Spanning several decades of the author’s career, this volume gives readers a Harington who is at once familiar and fresh as he experiments with new formal possibilities, only to once again endear the vagaries of love, life, and folk language to us.
 

Donald Harington taught art history in New York City, New England, and South Dakota before returning to his home state to teach at the University of Arkansas for twenty-two years. The author of fifteen novels, he received the Oxford American Lifetime Award for Contributions to Southern Literature, the Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, and the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence.

Brian Walter is professor of English at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. He is the editor of The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany and director of the documentaries Stay More: The World of Donald Harington and Farther Along: The World of Donald Harington, Part 2.