Kevin Wilson, NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC: A Novel
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Zibby speaks to New York Times bestselling author Kevin Wilson about his latest novel Now Is Not The Time to Panic, a coming-of-age story about two teenagers whose anonymous art causes a small Tennessee town to panic. Kevin shares the story of his late friend Eric, who once wrote down two unforgettable sentences that inspired this story. He also talks about his own upbringing and current life in a rural Tennessee town; his job as a creative writing professor, which he adores; and the pieces of advice he always shares with his students and aspiring authors.
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| 0:58.4 | Thank you. more at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Kevin Wilson is the author of Now Is Not the Time to Panic, a novel. |
| 1:02.8 | He is also the author of two collections, tunneling to the center of the Earth, which received |
| 1:07.3 | an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, |
| 1:11.8 | and Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine. Also, three novels, The Family Fang, Perfect Little World, |
| 1:16.9 | and Nothing to See Here, which was a New York Times bestseller and a read-with-Genna book club |
| 1:21.3 | selection. His fiction has appeared in Plow Shares, Southern Review, One Story, a public |
| 1:25.7 | space, and elsewhere, and has appeared in |
| 1:27.6 | Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2021, as well as the Penn O'Henry Prize Stories 2012. |
| 1:34.9 | He has received fellowships from the McDowell Colony, Yado, and the KHN Center for the Arts. |
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