antoine wilson
My full name is Antoine Leonide Thomas Wilson.
I was born in Montreal, in 1971.
I grew up for the most part in Southern California, with spells in Central California and Saudi Arabia.
Attended Santa Monica High School, UCLA, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. After the MFA, I did a one-year fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.
I’ve taught creative writing at Iowa, Wisconsin, CSU Long Beach, UC San Diego, and UCLA Extension.
I’ve always wanted to be a writer, or at least I’ve never wanted to stop writing.
I published some stories after grad school, by sending them out to a million places and getting rejected everywhere but one.
My first novel, The Interloper, was published by Other Press in May 2007.
It was not the first novel I wrote.
My second novel, Panorama City, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Fall 2012.
A Public Space is my favorite literary magazine.
That’s not my dog in the picture. Or my surfboard.
I write every day, almost.
If you’ve read all the way down to here, perhaps you’ll want to read my self-administered Proust Questionnaire.
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panorama city (available now)
buy a copy:
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"THIS IS A BOOK YOU WILL HOLD IN YOUR HEAD ALL DAY LONG, A BOOK YOU WILL LOOK FORWARD TO WHEN YOU GET HOME FROM WORK, A BOOK YOU WILL STILL BE SAVORING AS YOU DRIFT INTO SLEEP. IT IS FILLED WITH JOY AND WONDER, AND A SORT OF GOODNESS YOU HAD STOPPED BELIEVING MIGHT BE EVEN POSSIBLE."
- PETER CAREY
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* not my surfboard
** not my dog
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the interloper
"As assured and sumptuously written as any first novel I’ve encountered....This is writing at its very best."
- T.C. Boyle
[...] Wilson is the author of The Interloper and Panorama City. You can read more about him and his work here. I haven’t yet read his novels, but I appreciated this funny and true little piece of [...]
Hi Antoine,
Just writing in here for verification purposes. Please reply so we can get your process started!
Best,
Nora Bearman
Byliner Inc.
Hi Nora,
I am I.
Thanks,
Antoine
Antoine
I picked up a copy of “Panorama City” because of a review in the SF Chronicle and I really enjoyed it. I admit that I’ve known a few “slow absorbers” in my time, but they haven’t always been as perceptive, or as entertaining, as Oppen. He is a terrific character. Great work. Thanks.
I just finished The Interloper. Outstanding. I had previously read Panorama City (so I read you in reverse order.)
The books were five years apart. Don’t make us wait for another five years. You are a treasure. (And so handsome!)