Art of the Story Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories, (Paperback)

from TerryWeyna

Franz Kafka, Michael Chabon, and the literature of the fantastic seem to be major influences on Kevin Wilson, whose collection of short stories, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, will delight anyone who enjoys off-balance and well-told tales. Kafka's influence is evident in the surreal situat...

from jphamilton

I've been on a bit of a Kevin Wilson jag in the last few months, with a novel and a couple of short story collections. He has joined a swelling bag of my go-to writers—'bag' being a vague term meant to hold many of my very favorite authors who I've collected over my lifetime of reading … the brig...

from eleanor_eader

An utterly inspired collection of short stories, the whole package bubbling with affection, yearning, irony, sadness, character, humour; I honestly enjoyed every single one, which came as a surprise, as I usually find short story collections - especially if I'm not already familiar with the autho...

from brenzi

Oh my! What a strange, twisted, wild world Kevin Wilson creates when he sits down to write. This collection of stories, where Wilson turns the mundane into the surreal into the achingly beautiful surpassed every expectation I had for it. It's been sitting on my shelf for a couple of years and I'm...

from johnluiz

I am not normally a fan of offbeat, fantastical stories, preferring fiction with realistic situations that shed insight on circumstances I might share in my own life. But Kevin Wilson, who goes back and forth between the real and surreal throughout this collection, won me over big-time. Even his ...