Antoine Wilson's Blog

“You too are sensitive and good; I know it to be so, I have seen it; I regret not having been able to believe it earlier; nevertheless, your rank, your style of living are such that nothing makes a lasting impression on you; rather, you are continually confronted with so many new objects that they erase one another, mutually and none of them remains.”

Confessions, Book Ten

Ladies and Gentlemen,

My favorite time of year is coming up. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is only a week away.

I’ll be moderating a bang-up panel on Saturday April 22nd, at 11:00am with four fantastic authors:

Marcy Dermansky

Gina Frangello

Jon Raymond

Lisa See

The title of our panel is “Everybody’s Got One: Fiction & Families,” but we’ll be talking much more than family, no doubt.

Possible side-topics include: Pu’er tea, writing like Haruki Murakami, desire, and the legacy of violence.

Come listen and then ask a weird question!

My Turkish is a little bit rusty, but I’m pretty sure he compares the Slow Paparazzo to Cartier-Bresson.

I am.

What do you do when a writing project you’ve been working on for a couple of years dashes itself on the rocks?

Well, I made a freestyle rap mixtape lifted directly from the messages I left on my buddy’s voicemail while I was driving around LA.

All the lyrics on “You’ve Got Twelve Messages” came straight off the top of my head.

All the beats came from me trying to learn Garageband.

(This all happened about a year ago…but I figured there’s no better way to inaugurate the new website.)

I am.

What do you do when a project you’ve been working on for a couple of years dashes itself on the rocks?

Well, I made a freestyle rap mixtape lifted directly from the messages I left on my buddy’s voicemail while I was driving around LA.

All the lyrics on “You’ve Got Twelve Messages” came straight off the top of my head.

All the beats came from me trying to learn Garageband.

(This all happened about a year ago…but I figured there’s no better way to inaugurate the new website.)

Here I am in the online version of the Hong Kong magazine Ming Pao.

I was interviewed a while back as part of a series about artists working in Los Angeles.

Below, a Google Translation of the text.

Writing in California

Childhood growing up in California writer Antoine Wilson, there is a fiction scene located east coast of Santa Monica, another novel “Panorama City” is set in California climbed another hill. Which became a bestseller in Los Angeles, the “New York Times” named appreciation, was also chosen book of the year 2012 in San Francisco.

Writing in the United States, living space seems without geographical limitations, but life is an important influence. Antoine said: “The writer here many couples when one of them is television screenwriter, another engaged in literary creation.” In his own case, his wife is the TV screenwriter, and he focused on fiction writing. “For writing people, the film industry is a big attraction, but also the strong competition. But for me, compared to film literature, touched something more internal, this is what I need.”

Because family life, and his wife take turns to take care of the child, he will go to set up specially for writers and writing space The Office. “Here, we do not talk at work, but tired or written to be similar across the cafe to chat.” He bears witness to the Holy Land has become a tourist in Santa Monica becomes rich, while the gap between rich and poor people in Los Angeles more pull wide . “There’s different regions have their own face, appears to be a diverse city, but a closer look will find many areas are marginalized.”

OK, folks. Here’s the new site design. A couple of novels and some other projects across the top, and some updates down here. I’ve got some online projects in the works, and I’ll be updating here when they’re cooked.

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