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Big Read Author Talk: Kevin Wilson

  • Jesup Memorial Library 34 Mt. Desert Street Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 USA (map)

Join us for an evening with the author of Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson! Kevin will share about his writing process, take questions from the audience and sign books.

Kevin Wilson lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and their sons. There, he writes and teaches as an associate professor in the English Department at Sewanee: The University of the South. He is the author of two other novels, The Family Fang (Ecco, 2011) and Perfect Little World (Ecco, 2017), along with two short story collections: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine (Ecco, 2018). When he is not teaching or writing, he spends long hours with his children rambling through the mountains of Tennessee, exploring their backyard pond, watching old WrestleManias, hiking through the woods and “searching for frogs and lizards, for all the living things moving around us, unseen unless you try to find them” (LA Review of Books). When Wilson writes about parenthood, he captures this unseen: the aliveness of childhood curiosity, the fierce gratitudes of parenting, the terrible and wonderful uncertainties of love. “You can’t anticipate what your children are going to do or what the problems are going to be,” he told the  New York Times. “You love them, so you attack it head on and go forward.”

Earlier Event: June 27
Chess Club
Later Event: July 2
Story and Play