Peterborough - Former Keene resident Tim Weed discusses his new book of short stories

Tim Weed spent much of his youth in southern New Hampshire and attended Keene High School before graduating from Middlebury College. Many of the stories in A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing are informed by those early years, with several set all or partly in the area. “Tower Eight” unfolds across a series of southern New Hampshire settings—at a granite quarry, a former mill town, and a ski resort—as teenage misfits put themselves into various dangerous situations, establishing a tight friendship as they hurtle toward a tragic end. In “Steal Your Face,” a young man from Keene loses the love of his life and is captivated by dangerously alluring visions. In “A Winter Break in Rome,” a naïve New Hampshire college student infatuated with a beautiful girl is surprised by violence in an ancient European city, and in “The Dragon of Conchagua,” a troubled former Peace Corps volunteer returns to Ecuador to climb a high-altitude volcano, where he is haunted by increasingly vivid memories of the happy New Hampshire childhood he shared with his departed brother.