What's Important Is Feeling - by Adam Wilson (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house. And in the title story, selected for The Best American Short Stories, two film school buddies working on a doomed project are left sizing up their own talent, hoping to come out on top--but fearing they won't. In What's Important Is Feeling, Adam Wilson follows the through-line of contemporary coming-of-age from the ravings of teenage lust to the staggering loneliness of proto-adulthood. He navigates the tough terrain of American life with a delicate balance of comedy and compassion, lyricism and unsparing straightforwardness. Wilson's characters wander through a purgatory of yearning, hope, and grief. No one emerges unscathed."--P. [4] of cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house.</p><p>And in the title story, selected for <em>The Best American Short Stories</em>, two film school buddies working on a doomed project are left sizing up their own talent, hoping to come out on top--but fearing they won't.</p><p>In <em>What's Important Is Feeling</em>, Adam Wilson follows the through-line of contemporary coming-of-age from the ravings of teenage lust to the staggering loneliness of proto-adulthood. He navigates the tough terrain of American life with a delicate balance of comedy and compassion, lyricism and unsparing straightforwardness. Wilson's characters wander through a purgatory of yearning, hope, and grief. No one emerges unscathed.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Adam Wilson's fierce tales of botched dreams, conflicted ambitions and naïve missteps make for a millennial <i>Winesburg, Ohio</i>, capturing all the idealism and cynicism of young cohorts facing tough realities."--<b>B&N Review</b><br><br>"[A] testosterone- and coke-fueled collection. . . . Darkly funny."--<b>Entertainment Weekly</b><br><br>"Adam Wilson can write. . . and he does so with a certain authenticity and humor that I rarely see. . . . If you enjoy the cohesive element in collections, then I can't recommend this book enough."--<b>LITREACTOR.COM</b><br><br>"Adam Wilson is a writer on the rise."--<b>Buzzfeed</b><br><br>"Adam Wilson is one of our best young writers."--<b>Flavorwire</b><br><br>"Getting laughs and pathos from the same work of fiction is a hard thing to do. Adam Wilson's previous book, <i>Flatscreen</i>, did so regularly. . . . As good as that book was, his new collection <i>What's Important is Feeling</i>, is even better."--<b>VOL. 1. BROOKLYN</b><br><br>"The stories in Adam Wilson's <i>What's Important Is Feeling</i> blend humor with emotion."--<b><i>Vanity Fair</i></b><br><br>"This book is a joy ride . . . The buoyant comedy and insight of Wilson's prose carries these stories farther and farther past taboo, into sensitive and complicated territory."--<b>New York Times Book Review</b><br><br>"This book will bring you back to the wandering, blurred-together days of your early twenties, or, if you're a younger person with creative aspirations, remind you of your very real present."--<b>GQ.com</b><br><br>"Those who like to sympathize or psychoanalyze should find what they're looking for in What's Important is Feeling: Stories. Wilson's characters might be one, probably two, cards short of a full deck, but they are inarguably funny."--<b>VOX Magazine</b><br><br>"With its tales of young men and women who can't quite grow-up, is about addiction, fear, sickness, self-doubt, family and love. But it asks us to respect its dark and damaged characters and to come feel what they feel, even if it's for just a moment in time."--<b>ZYZZYVA</b><br>
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