Our friend and neighbor Craig Holt has been a standup comedian, an outdoor adventurer, and, for most of this millennium, the owner of Atlas Coffee, supplier for, among many others, our beloved Herkimer Coffee. (He even has a cameo appearance in Dave Eggers’s recent The Monk of Mokha.) But for all that time he’s been writing too, and he’ll be here to talk about his first novel, Hard Dog to Kill, a darkly comic adventure story about two mercenaries in one of the many places Craig has gotten to know in his coffee-related travels, the Congo.