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Two Advance Reviews for PANORAMA CITY

By On July 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In gnus, Publishing, Reading

PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY gives PANORAMA CITY a STARRED, BOXED review in this week’s issue:

Wilson’s second novel (after Interloper) is fresh and flawlessly crafted as well as charmingly genuine. Oppen Porter is almost 30, a guileless man who lives in a small central California town with his reclusive father in a house overtaken by nature. Untouched [...]

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Galleys

By On April 6, 2012 · 1 Comment · In e v e n t s, gnus, Publishing, Typign

My favorite moment. (Because it’s real, but not too real…)

NEWS: Delighted to announce that Panorama City has been selected to appear on the Editors Buzz Panel at this year’s BEA in New York.

Which means I’ll be there, too!

Last time I attended BEA it was in L.A., and I snagged [...]

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Spectacular Failure

By On March 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In kultur, Publishing

The inimitable Lysley Tenorio (author of MONSTRESS) talked up THE INTERLOPER (and two other fabulous books) on NPR the other day. Listen here: Try and Try Again: Three Tales of Spectacular Failure (NPR.org)

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A Blurb from Rainn Wilson…

By On February 21, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Hollyweird, lulz, Publishing, WTF

…for Panorama City!

Um, the city.

“I have a special relationship with Panorama City, CA. First of all, The Office is literally filmed there. Also, I saw Dungeons and Dragons, The Movie there a long time ago. Also they have a Home Depot. I haven’t read the book yet but if it’s half as interesting [...]

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The Dark Magic of Author Photos

By On February 14, 2012 · 5 Comments · In Fotoz, Publishing, Typign, vanitas

I have a confession to make about my author photo: It’s a lie.

Heavily retouched, populated with “reader-friendly” elements, what you see to the right is a complete fabrication.

I don’t own a dog. (I accumulate cats.)

I don’t ride old-school, vintage, soulful longboards. (I ride short boards, newish ones, and I’m an [...]

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Writing is Easy

By On November 16, 2011 · 2 Comments · In deep thots, Publishing, Typign

Some of these words (the ones not crossed out) actually made into the book.

They’ll be looking much more spruced up and fancy come September 2012.

Hope you’ll revisit them then.

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Panorama City Update

By On October 25, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Publishing

My amazing, amazing editor has moved presses, and I am following her, so update your calendars. PANORAMA CITY will now be coming out in FALL 2012, from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

I’ll be missing my Black Cat brother Mark Haskell Smith, but I’m uber-pleased to be in the company of my HMH sister, Sarah [...]

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Why I Love Your Book Group

By On July 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In blank stares, e v e n t s, kultur, Publishing, Reading, Typign

One of the pleasures of publishing a book is getting to hold a reading at your local bookshop. Family and friends show up, along with a few fans, former students, and, if it’s been promoted well, a handful of curious strangers.

You sell books, which is nice. And no matter how modest your advance, or [...]

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PANORAMA CITY…coming in 2012

By On June 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Publishing, Typign

THE NEW NOVEL IS DONE.

PANORAMA CITY will be released by Grove/Atlantic’s Black Cat Books in 2012.

Here’s a tease, from Publisher’s Marketplace:

THE INTERLOPER author Antoine Wilson’s PANORAMA CITY, about a curious, openhearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-wearing man of-the-world, who, believing he is on his deathbed, decides to record everything his unborn son might find useful [...]

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The Echo-Chamber of Self-Branding

By On April 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Publishing

When did artists become avatars?

Who else but artists are the simultaneous guardians, transmitters, and rejuvenators of our culture?

When we asks artists to become brands, we exclude from art the complexity of being human.

Go to this guy for X. This woman writes Y, dependably.

I’m not saying that artists are without [...]

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