{"id":676,"date":"2009-08-16T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/?page_id=676"},"modified":"2021-08-23T10:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:20:32","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/antoinewilson.com\/wotwhat\/writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short Fiction<\/h2>\n

“In the Bank.” included in The Silver Waves of Summer<\/a><\/em>, David Olsen, ed., Kelp Books, 2021.<\/p>\n

“Panorama City.” A Public Space<\/a><\/i>, issue #12, 2011. *Special Mention, Pushcart Prizes XXXVII*<\/p>\n

“Everyone Else.”<\/a> The Paris Review<\/a><\/i>, issue #171, fall 2004. *Special Mention, Pushcart Prizes XXX* *National Magazine Award Finalist*<\/p>\n

“Alva Oak, 1959.” Blue Mesa Review<\/a><\/i>, issue #16, 2004.<\/p>\n

“Sentimental Recollection.”<\/a> Gutcult<\/a><\/i>, issue #3 Winter\/Spring 2003\/2004.<\/p>\n

“Ground Control to Magic Town.” Quarterly West<\/a><\/i>, issue #56 Spring\/Summer 2003.<\/p>\n

“Home, James, and Don’t Spare the Horses.” Best New American Voices 2001<\/a><\/i>, Guest Editor, Charles Baxter, 2001.<\/p>\n

“Photog!” StoryQuarterly<\/a><\/i>, issue #37, 2001.<\/p>\n

“It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous.” Madison Review<\/a><\/i>, v. 23 n. 1, Fall 2001.<\/p>\n

“Found on Ground at L.A. Zoo.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies<\/i>, volume 18, 1999.<\/p>\n

True Stories<\/h2>\n

“No Alzheimer’s in India.”<\/a> included in Eat Joy<\/em>, Natalie Eve Garrett, ed., Catapult Press, 2019.<\/p>\n

“For Sarah.”<\/a> The Paris Review Online<\/em>, May 18, 2018.<\/p>\n

“Sand In My Joints.”<\/a> Underwater New York and Trop<\/em>, 2014.<\/p>\n

“Valhalla.”<\/a> A Public Space<\/em>, issue #9, Winter 2009.<\/p>\n

“In Boca.”<\/a> A Public Space<\/em>, issue #1, Spring 2006.<\/p>\n

Essays and Reviews<\/h2>\n

ESSAYS<\/p>\n

The Pleasures of Tsundoku, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Book Piles.<\/a> LitHub<\/em>,July 28, 2021.<\/p>\n

<\/a>“Notes on Hack.”<\/a> Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>, November 20, 2011.<\/p>\n

OCCASIONAL PIECES<\/p>\n

The Wrong Stuff: Antoine Wilson Reviews Guillame Abruzzo\u2019s Cynical Space Nightmare Mine<\/i><\/a> – in which I review a film I made up.<\/p>\n

Research Notes (at Steve Himmer’s Necessary Fiction)<\/a> – in which I provide actual JPEGs to go with passages from PANORAMA CITY.<\/p>\n

What’s the First Thing You Ever Made, Antoine Wilson? (at The Project Room)<\/a> – in which I answer that question.<\/p>\n

Book Notes Playlist for PANORAMA CITY (at Largehearted Boy)<\/a> – in which I provide some tunes to go with my novel.<\/p>\n

My First Time (at David Abrams’ The Quivering Pen)<\/a> – in which I describe unboxing THE INTERLOPER for the first time.<\/p>\n

Writers Recommend (at Poets & Writers)<\/a> – in which I recommend surfing as a supplement to the writing life.<\/p>\n

My Top 10 Narrators in Literature (at Publisher’s Weekly)<\/a> – in which I betray some biases, for good or ill.<\/p>\n

You’re Doing It Wrong: Video Games vs. Books, Part 1 (at Booklist)<\/a> – in which Patrick Somerville and I go head-to-head on video games versus books. Here’s Part 2, where things get really crazy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When We Fell in Love (at 3 Guys 1 Book)<\/a> – in which I name-check the early influence of Auster, Pynchon, and Baldwin.<\/p>\n

My Book, the Movie<\/a> – in which I dream-cast a movie of my novel.<\/p>\n

BOOK REVIEWS<\/p>\n

The Mark and the Void<\/em> by Paul Murray. New York Times Times<\/em>, December 10, 2015.<\/p>\n

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life<\/em> by William Finnegan. San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, July 23, 2015.<\/p>\n

Mary Coin<\/em> by Marisa Silver. New York Times Times<\/em>, April 14, 2013.<\/p>\n

The Golden Shore<\/em> by David Helvarg. San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, February 22, 2013.<\/p>\n

This Wicked World<\/em> by Richard Lange. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, July 5, 2009.<\/p>\n

All About Lulu: A Novel<\/em> by Jonathan Evison. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, August 3, 2008.<\/p>\n

The Boat<\/em> by Nam Le. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, July 6, 2008.<\/p>\n

God’s Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre<\/em> by Richard Grant. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Mar 9, 2008.<\/p>\n

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World<\/em> by Eric Weiner. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Jan 27, 2008.<\/p>\n

Remainder<\/em> by Tom McCarthy; The Quarterly Conversation<\/em>, Fall 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Fields of Asphodel, A Novel<\/em> by Tito Perdue. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Jul 15, 2007.<\/p>\n

Petropolis: A Novel<\/em> by Anya Ulinich. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Feb 18, 2007.<\/p>\n

Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam and Jetsam<\/em> by Skye Moody. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Nov 26, 2006.<\/p>\n

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Five Stories<\/em> by Haruki Murakami. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Sep 10, 2006.<\/p>\n

Surfing’s Greatest Misadventures: Dropping In on the Unexpected<\/em> Edited by Paul Diamond and Tyler McMahon; and West of Jesus: Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief<\/em> by Steven Kotler. Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Jun 11, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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