Flatscreen

"OMFG, I nearly up and died from laughter when I read Flatscreen. This is the novel that every young turk will be reading on their way to a job they hate and are in fact too smart for." --Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story

Indie-lit star and Faster Times editor Adam Wilson delivers the gleefully absurd, effortlessly heartwarming story of one young man's struggle to shake off the listless, sexless, stoned mantle of suburban teenage life and become something better. Fortunately (maybe) for Eli, his apathetic quest finds a catalyzing agent in one Mr. Seymour J. Kahn, a paraplegic sex addict and two-bit silver screen star who initiates a mad decent into debasement and (of course) YouTube stardom--a transformation from which there will be no going back.


Author: Adam Wilson
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 02/21/2012
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.32w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780062090331
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/21/2011 pg. 29
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2012
Booklist 01/01/2012 pg. 36
Entertainment Weekly 02/24/2012 pg. 85
New Yorker (The) 03/19/2012 pg. 83

About the Author
Wilson, Adam: -

Adam Wilson is the author of the novel Flatscreen (Harper Perennial, 2012). His fiction has appeared in many publications including The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, Tin House, The Literary Review, The New York Tyrant, Gigantic, and many others.

He is currently a regular contributor to both BookForum and The Paris Review Daily. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, Time Out New York, and elsewhere.

Adam holds a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Columbia University. A former employee of Brooklyn's famous BookCourt bookstore, he now teaches creative writing at NYU and The Sackett Street Writer's Workshop. He lives in Brooklyn with his cat.