The Story Behind the Hunter’s Moon Collection of Stories

by Philip Caputo | Jul 25, 2019 | Essays, Hunter’s Moon

My latest book, a collection of short stories titled Hunter’s Moon, was inspired by two much older works of short fiction, one by a Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches, and the other by an American, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. In a sense, Hunter’s Moon, much like Winesburg, Ohio, can be considered a novel in stories. It mostly takes place in a fictional American town, Vieux Desert, on Michigan’s wild and remote Upper Peninsula. It features recurrent characters at different points in their lives over the course of several years, roughly from 2004 to 2018.