In addition to Alamo Drafthouse and Harkins Theaters, A Prayer for the Dying is also in select AMC Theatres, in Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, LA, Nashville, Nyack, Oklahoma City, Orlando, and Tampa. Get your tickets!
LOS ANGELES: https://drafthouse.com/los-angeles/show/a-prayer-for-the-dying?cinemaId=1701
NEW YORK: https://drafthouse.com/nyc/show/a-prayer-for-the-dying
AUSTIN: https://drafthouse.com/austin/show/a-prayer-for-the-dying
DALLAS/FORT WORTH: https://drafthouse.com/dfw/show/a-prayer-for-the-dying
DENVER: https://drafthouse.com/denver/show/a-prayer-for-the-dying
CHICAGO: https://drafthouse.com/chicago/show/a-prayer-for-the-dying
HARKINS (Arizona, Oklahoma, California, Colorado): https://www.harkins.com/movies/a-prayer-for-the-dying/2026-10-01
Hollywood Reporter – https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/a-prayer-for-the-dying-review-johnny-flynn-john-c-reilly-1236506418/
Variety – https://variety.com/2026/film/news/a-prayer-for-the-dying-review-1236661887/
Time Out – https://www.timeout.com/movies/a-prayer-for-the-dying-review-2026
As a novelist, I’m drawn to characters who are not famous, accomplished, or visible. And yet, two of the books I’ve written — one about F. Scott Fitzgerald and another about a serial killer who sells a story to Stephen King — are one or more of these things. So, I’m all over the place with my characters. But most often I write about people I know and those who are closest to me.
My brother John and I were raised in the Point Breeze section of Pittsburgh. Our father worked for Alcoa and taught, off and on, at Pitt, while our mother taught economics at Carnegie Mellon University. Both of my parents were “numbers” people, so I drifted in that direction. In school, I was always good at math.
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING follows veteran Jacob Hansen, whose American dream of a new life in Friendship, Wisconsin quickly becomes a nightmare. When a deadly epidemic and threatening wildfire spread chaos, Jacob – serving as sheriff, undertaker, and pastor – must fight to save his town, his family, and his soul.
Cast: Johnny Flynn, John C. Reilly, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh
In Theaters October 9th, 2026
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Center for the Book, located within the Penn State University Libraries, has selected Cordelia Jensen’s Lehigh Valley based middle grade novel in verse, “Lilac and the Switchback,” published by Holiday House (Walker Books Group), and Stewart O’Nan’s adult fiction novel based in Pittsburgh, “Evensong,” published by Atlantic Monthly Press (Grove Atlantic), to represent Pennsylvania in the Library of Congress Center for the Book’s 2026 Great Reads program.
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