Whitefield, NH, June 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Author and faculty member for SNHU's Mountainview MFA program, Adam Wilson, will be taking over as interim director of the program. He is acting in this role while previous director, Benjamin Nugent, is on sabbatical for the 2018-2019 semesters.
Adam Wilson is the author of Flatscreen, a National Jewish Book Award finalist. His stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, and The Best American Short Stories, among many other publications. In 2012 he received the Terry Southern Prize, which recognizes "wit, panache, and sprezzatura" in work published by The Paris Review. He lives in Brooklyn.
His novel, Flatscreen, has been very positively received since its publication in 2012. See the rave reviews below:
“…immensely satisfying … Wilson has created a thoroughly lovable slacker, part hilarious, part poignant.” (New Yorker)
“Comic novelist Adam Wilson makes his swaggering debut in Flatscreen.” (Vanity Fair)
“Wilson’s prose is original and arresting … he approaches, in his loftier moments, the tortured grace of George Saunders. This is Cheever on Xanax, or maybe lithium, but the voice is still there; sardonic, hilarious, and very much of our time. Wilson is a writer to watch.” (Daily Beast)
“If you smashed The Catcher in the Rye into Jesus’ Son, you might have something quite close to Flatscreen, a narrative of wayward youth for our beguiled new century on the brink of a discovery we might not welcome.” (BookForum)
“Perverse, subversive, and hilariously outrageous, the book delivers memorable characters, a rollicking plot, and a new voice that comes across as anything but flat.” (Barnes and Noble Review)
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