The new issue of American Short Fiction contains a wonderful story by Kevin Wilson about, as Bret Anthony Johnston puts it, “that moment in your teens when everything seems both possible and doomed.” In a few casual, funny, accessible scenes, Wilson conjures this delicate moment in all its brimming, about-to-spill-over fullness, all its wonder and vividness and heart. Here, in a podcast produced by our assistant editor Andrew Bales, is Kevin Wilson reading a few pages of the “The Horror We Made.”
Thanks for listening in to the podcast. You can find Kevin’s entire story, along with others from Joyce Carol Oates, Kellie Wells, Rachel Swearingen, Barrett Swanson, Ryan MacDonald, and Sabrina Orah Mark by ordering a copy of the issue, here.
Kevin Wilson is the author of the collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, which won the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award, and a novel, The Family Fang. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, and teaches at the University of the South.
This podcast features music by the Austin band Borrisokane.