February 11, 2022
An essay about my experience at Alinea appears online at Bon Appetit.
January 20, 2022
“Biology”, which originally appeared in Southern Review was selected by Jesmyn Ward for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2021.
June 8, 2020
Nothing to See Here is a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, which is really amazing and unexpected. I’m so happy to be listed alongside such amazing books. Jackson is my favorite writer and my first story collection, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth was a co-winner of the award back in 2009.
December 19, 2019
I’m really excited to report that my wife, Leigh Anne Couch, won the Vassar Miller Prize from the University of North Texas Press for her second book of poems I Am Bird and I Am Dirt. Jenny Browne served as the judge. Leigh Anne’s book will be published in 2021.
December 18, 2019
Nothing to See Here has been chosen as the January selection for the Buzzfeed Book Club and is one of sixteen books competing in the 2020 Tournament of Books.
December 13, 2019
Nothing to See Here has made its way onto several end-of-the-year lists. The New York Times listed it as one of their 100 Notable Books of 2019. People selected it as one of the ten best books of 2019. Time choose it as a “Must-Read Book of 2019”. The A.V. Club choose it as one of the 15 best books of 2019. Audible choose it as one of the 5 Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2019. Entertainment Weekly called it one of the 10 best books of 2019. The Washington Post selected it as one of 50 notable works of fiction in 2019.
November 26, 2019
I was interviewed by Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb on The Today Show.
November 21, 2019
Nothing to See Here is a New York Times Bestseller! Elisabeth Egan interviewed me for Inside the List.
November 13, 2019
I was interviewed by Tommy Tomlinson for NPR’s Southbound.
November 11, 2019
Elizabeth Gabler of 3000 Pictures acquired the rights to Nothing to See Here. Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber will write the script.
November 1, 2019
Jenna Bush Hager has selected Nothing to See Here as the November selection for her Read With Jenna book club. I’ll be interviewed by Jenna on The Today Show on November 26th.
October 29, 2019
I was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air. An essay that I wrote about the book and also about parenting was published by Time. I also received the best review of all time from Taffy Brodesser-Akner in The New York Times.
August 1, 2019
Nothing to See Here has been featured as an anticipated book by Lit Hub, The Rumpus, and The Millions. It received a lovely review from The Leaf Chronicle. Library Journal featured me and my editor, Zack Wagman, in a roundup of writer/editor relationships. And Virginia Stanley at Library Love Fest was kind enough to interview me when I was at ALA, which is featured here.
June 23, 2019
A story of mine was selected for the longlist for the 2019 Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award.
March 19, 2019
My first publication was an essay in The Oxford American, so I’m excited to have a new story published in their Spring issue. With gratitude to Sara Lewis and Jay Jennings for their editing skills and to Eliza Bourné for accepting it.
January 8, 2018
BookPage listed Nothing to See Here on its 2019 preview of Most Anticipated Fiction. It will be released on November 5th.
November 17, 2018
Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine has been listed as one of the best books of 2018 by Kirkus, The Washington Post, Library Journal, Southern Living, and Thrillist.
October 22, 2018
I’m excited to announce that Ecco will publish my new novel, Nothing to See Here, in the fall of 2019. It’s a novel that continues my obsessions with spontaneous human combustion and familial dynamics. I’m not certain that you can make a career out of these obsessions, but I’m going to try, and I’m grateful to Ecco, my editor, Zack Wagman, and my agent, Julie Barer, for allowing me the opportunity.
October 16, 2018
On The Today Show, Ann Patchett selected Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine as her favorite book of the year.
August 20, 2018
Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine received very kind reviews from numerous outlets, including Maureen Corrigan’s amazing review on NPR’s Fresh Air.
I have a new story at Hobart, with gratitude to editor Aaron Burch for taking this long, strange story.
August 7, 2018
Today is the publication day for my story collection, Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine.
May 23, 2018
Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine was featured alongside story collections by Lauren Groff, Nick White, and Jamel Brinkley in the Wall Street Journal. Nylon also featured the collection as one of 46 Great Books to Read This Summer.
May 15, 2018
Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, which will be published on August 7, 2018, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, calling the collection “Evocative, compassionate, and exquisitely composed stories about the human condition.”
March 23, 2018
During the Southern Festival of Books last year, I was interviewed for A Word on Words, a literary program on Nashville Public Television. I am grateful to the producer, Linda Wei, and the host, Mary Laura Philpott, for such a wonderful experience.
March 5, 2018
The American Scholar has published a small excerpt of a novel-in-progress. You can read it here.
December 21, 2017
In August of 2018, Ecco will publish my story collection, Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine.
July 11, 2017
Kenyon Review interviewed me for the publication of my story, “Door to Door”.
February 16, 2017
My essay on the necessity of failure can be found in the March/April 2017 issue of Poets & Writers.
February 13, 2017
The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award announced its longlist and I’m one of the fourteen authors, alongside writers such as Celeste Ng, Anjali Joseph, Ethel Rohan, Elizabeth McCracken, and Bret Anthony Johnston.
February 6, 2017
You can read an essay about my anxiety and my son at Buzzfeed, a essay about Harry Potter and death at LitHub, and an essay about a very strange book tour reading at Powell’s Books blog. Aaron Burch at Hobart and Adam Vitcavage at Electric Literature were kind enough to interview me.
January 30, 2017
John Irving said, “I’ll bet Kevin Wilson is a good father.”
January 5, 2017
Perfect Little World is listed as an anticipated book by Kirkus Reviews, GQ, The Millions, Bustle, InStyle, Popsugar, Observer, Summer Says, and The Charlotte Observer.
The novel is also one of the 20 Indie Next Great Reads for February 2017.
November 26, 2016
W has listed Perfect Little World as one of the five books for “Winter Reading: the Best New Books to Tackle the Season”.
November 17, 2016
My story “Living Underground” has been selected as the winner of the Theodore C. Hoepfner Award for fiction, given annually to the best story to appear in Southern Humanities Review.
September 20, 2016
My story, “An Arc Welder, a Molotov Cocktail, a Bowie Knife” which originally appeared in Ploughshares was selected as one of the Other Distinguished Stories of 2015 in The Best American Short Stories 2016.
May 11, 2016
Gareth Smith & Jenny Lee, amazing filmmakers and designers, adapted my story “Worst Case Scenario” for a short film, which recently won the Audience Award at the Scruffy City Film and Music Festival. You can see a trailer for the film here.
April 29, 2016
The film adaptation of The Family Fang, directed by Jason Bateman and starring Bateman, Nicole Kidman, and Christopher Walken will appear in theaters nationwide on May 6, 2016.
April 17, 2016
Ecco will publish my new novel, Perfect Little World, in January of 2017.
February 17, 2016
An excerpt of my short story “Living Underground” was animated by Julianna Cvetetic, an amazing graphic designer. Thanks to Southern Humanities Review, who originally published the story, for facilitating this collaboration in order to create “motion lit”.
November 4, 2015
My short story “The Pigeon Cove Festival of Lights” will be one of the 24 stories included in The Short Story Advent Calendar, a collection of stories that readers will open, one by one, on the mornings leading up to Christmas 2015. Featuring work by Pasha Malla, Jess Walter, and Heather O’Neill, each chapbook is sealed, so you won’t know what story you’re getting until the morning you open it. They will take orders until November 13.
July 28, 2015
The Family Fang, a film starring Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, and Christopher Walken, directed by Jason Bateman, will receive its world premiere in September at the Toronto International Film Festival.
December 1, 2014
Rita Bullwinkel interviewed me for Nashville Review and Kate Jayroe, a Sewanee grad, interviewed me for Oxford American.
February 22, 2014
My story, “A Birth in the Woods”, which originally appeared in Ecotone (Vol. 6, No. 2), has been included in Lookout Books’ anthology Astoria to Zion: Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone’s First Decade. The anthology also features work by Rick Bass, Edith Pearlman, Steve Almond, Rebecca Makkai, and Cary Holladay.
January 28, 2014
Penguin Classics has recently reissued several of Shirley Jackson’s books, including her second novel The Bird’s Nest, with a foreword by me. Other writers who have contributed forewords for Jackson’s other books include Francine Prose, Victor LaValle, Ruth Franklin, and Laura Miller.
September 24, 2013
My story “What Wants My Son”, a retelling of the story of Phaeton from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, is included in the anthology xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, edited by Kate Bernheimer. The anthology also features work by Aimee Bender, Victor Lavalle, Maile Meloy, and Edith Pearlman.
June 12, 2013
I will be interviewing Elliot Holt, author of the fantastic novel You Are One of Them, live at Booktalk Nation on June 18 at 7pm EST.
June 10, 2013
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be the first writer-in-residence at the Rivendell Writers’ Colony in Sewanee, TN. I’ll be there for the month of July to work on my next novel. Thanks to Carmen and Michael Thompson and Mary Elizabeth Nelson for this wonderful honor.
April 6, 2013
I will be a member of the visiting faculty for the 2013 Yale Writers’ Conference. Other visiting faculty include Susan Orlean, ZZ Packer, Tom Perrotta, and Richard Selzer.