I’m happy to announce that Ecco will publish my novel, The Family Fang, in the summer of 2011. More info about the book, including blurbs and cover art, will be posted as we get closer to the release date.
“Housewarming”, which originally appeared in South Carolina Review, has been included in New Stories From the South 2010, edited by Amy Hempel and Kathy Pories.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth was selected as the co-winner of the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for a single-author collection. The award is shared with Robert Shearman’s Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award in the category of single-author collection. The Shirley Jackson Awards, given in memory of writer Shirley Jackson (author of the short story, “The Lottery”, and the novels The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle), “have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.”
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth received an Alex Award, given each year to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults. Previous winners include Hannah Tinti’s The Good Thief, Ann Patchett’s Truth and Beauty, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.
My story, “No Joke, This is Going To Be Painful,” which originally appeared in Tin House, has been selected for inclusion in the anthology New Stories From the South 2009, edited by Madison Smartt Bell.
A story from Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, “The Museum of Whatnot,” is currently available at Fifty-Two Stories, a website run by Cal Morgan and Harper Perennial which publishes a new story each week.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth was selected as one of fifteen “Favorite Reads of the Summer” by the editors of Publishers Weekly.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth received very kind reviews from The New York Times, Time Out New York, Time Out Chicago, and The Advocate.
Flavorwire and The Advocate conducted interviews.
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth was selected as an April pick for the Indie Next List. Christopher Chadwick at ASUN Bookstore in Reno, Nevada, said “In this fantastic debut collection of stories, Kevin Wilson infuses the everyday, mundane world with a touch of magic, reexamining the familiar through a slightly warped lens. Each of Wilson’s characters possesses a touch of melancholy, but each one manages to reconcile this sadness. Definitely a must-have for fans of the short story.”
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth was also selected as one of three books, along with Paul Yoon’s Once the Shore and Tracy Winn’s Mrs. Somebody Somebody for Andrew’s Book Club.