BookPage interview by Alden Mudge August 2011 You could easily imagine that with all the hilarious—and, well, less than hilarious—antics of his fabulous fictional family Fang, Kevin Wilson might have some serious family issues of his own. August 13, 2018 • Critic Maureen Corrigan says Kevin Wilson's funny, raw, beautiful writing reminds her of J. D. Salinger. You would be wrong.“I have incredible parents and I have a sister with whom I am very close,” Wilson says during a call to the “little cabin” in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife Leigh Anne, a poet, and their three-year-old son. "I've always had this kind … Then the kind of agitation is the knowledge that, at some point, it's going to loop back around. My father always reads everything I write.”,“They loved it! “My parents didn’t really understand what I wanted to do when I wanted to write, but they were always supportive. His new novel,"Writing is, I think, the thing that saved me — being able to transfer what was in my head onto the page," he says. "I've always had this kind of agitation and looping thoughts and small tics," he says. We were as close as we could be, like every Friday night when we were teenagers, my sister and I would play canasta with my parents. ".Your purchase helps support NPR programming.I was an anxious kid, and I had all this agitation inside of me, and so it made sense that I just assumed I might burst into flames.
When I told them I wanted to write, both of my parents said, ‘That’s what you should do.’ They just kind of embraced it. You would be wrong. Author Interview Series: Kevin Wilson. I think they easily could have handled it.
It’s easier for me to get into the darker stuff if I initially treat it as absurd. But with this book I think it was so bizarre that they just didn’t worry about it.”,“I hesitate to say that I’m a fan of performance art because I know so little of it. My father was paying for me to go to this great school [Vanderbilt] in part because I was going to get a good job. And a lot of times I can't predict when it will happen. And it’s something I’ve tried to emulate.
"There's this freedom that once it ... goes out into the world and you publish it, you're kind of free of it for a little while — at least it's somebody else's problem. A child's tantrum is rarely humorous, but a new and highly acclaimed novel, "Nothing to See Here," from author Kevin Wilson takes an otherwise dreaded situation and turns it into satire… The characters of Camille and Caleb are so divorced from them that it was pretty much impossible for them to mistakenly read themselves into them,” Wilson says.
It gives me an entry point. Sometimes I'm just driving, we're going on a trip and it will hit — and it's this quick. Kevin Wilson is the author of Perfect Little World, The Family Fang, and Tunneling to the Center of the Earth.
Wilson, who recently turned 33, is the author of an award-winning story collection,Wilson’s parents live just a 20-minute drive down Monteagle mountain, where his father—whom he describes as “the most capable person” he’s ever known—sells insurance.
I’m very much interested in that kind of magic, where you’re amazed by the strangeness and weirdness of the world.”.Alyssa Cole’s work has always had two common threads: a social conscience and a central...It’s been 30 years since the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Welsh author Ken...Sue Miller and I spoke back in 2003, just before the publication of her memoir, The Story of My...© 1996-2020 BookPage and ProMotion, inc. | 2143 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212.And his parents’ impressions of his first novel. It seemed entirely possible. I turn my head a little bit to kind of shake it out to try to break that loop. The way it was posited in the article was ‘isn’t this ridiculous, this is not real art, this is a kind of profanity.’ But I thought, this is the best art, this is the most incredible thing I can imagine. Knowing children — I have two little boys — and I think children when they have tantrums or even when they're agitated they look like they're going to combust. But there was still this kind of hidden part of me that I didn't want to talk about, because I was certain that once it kind of entered the open air it would change everything. It just increases the kind of looping as it spins around in my head. We were just always with each other. You don't know what's the tipping point. And so it just repeated in my head over and over again until I decided, "I've got to write about it." It's entirely possible to me that my boys might burst into flames.My family is incredible.
But when I was in junior high or high school, I read about this guy who had someone shoot him for a performance piece, for an art piece! "Those images and looping tics are in my head. “Sometimes I think they worry about being characters in my stories. ".Not that Wilson would ever harm anyone else — the harm in these quick, intrusive thoughts was strictly internal. I'm always certain of that.I've lived in this body and with this brain for so long that sometimes I'm not so much worried about me — like,Tourette's Tics Are A Challenge, But Misunderstanding Of Tics Can Be Worse,A Father To His Son: 'I Know What It's Like' Living With Tourette's Syndrome,A Delightful Portrait Of The Screwball 'Family Fang',For Novelist John Green, OCD Is Like An 'Invasive Weed' Inside His Mind,'Perfect Little World' Imagines Family Drama Inside A Utopian Compound,With Wit And Sadness, 'Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine' Has Echoes Of Salinger.
It goes deep back inside of my brain.
Kevin Wilson is the author of the collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and a novel, The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011).
Read 1 091 reviews from the world's largest community … His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, One Story, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere, and has … I shake my head out of that, but it will come back.
Author Interview: Kevin Wilson.
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