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Tod Wodicka

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Tod Wodicka's second novel, THE HOUSEHOLD SPIRIT was published by Pantheon and Jonathan Cape in June 2015.

His first novel, ALL SHALL BE WELL; AND ALL SHALL BE WELL; AND ALL MANNER OF THINGS SHALL BE WELL has been translated into Spanish, Dutch and German. It was shortlisted for The Believer Book Award. Wodicka's writing has appeared in the Guardian, Granta, Tank Magazine, South as a State of Mind, the National, Art Papers, AnOther Magazine, Amuse and the New Statesman.
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I'm genuinely happy that one of the five or six people googling me is googling me from Glasgow. This feels awesome and legitimizing in a way tha…more
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I'm genuinely happy that one of the five or six people googling me is googling me from Glasgow. This feels awesome and legitimizing in a way that someone in New York googling me just wouldn't. (I have googled myself from New York. You just get the same boring shit.)

To answer your question, Yes! Right now, in fact. Or I should be but I'm doodling around online. It's a novel called Der Tod. It's also a memoir full of lies. I hope to have it finished by the end of next year. (Meaning, I'll probably have it finished by the end of 2021.) It feels like the book I was born to write.

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Tod Wodicka Thank you, David. PS is simply one of the finest experience I've had with literature this past decade. A book like that: it's why I read in the first …moreThank you, David. PS is simply one of the finest experience I've had with literature this past decade. A book like that: it's why I read in the first place. I was baffled and often upset by a lot of the lazy or negative reviews that came in for it. It deserves long winding essays; it deserves far more serious readers than it attracted. But having been on the other side of the novelist/reviewer Dance of Death, I now see how hard it is for (literally) poor reviewers to find the time to properly review something of that magnitude. As for your question about Nadas influence, I'd have to say that if a reader is looking for anything Nadas-like in my work, they won't find it. (Sadly.) We couldn't be more different. In fact, the main character of my new novel is someone who is more-or-less detached from his body, from the mess and needs of it. (less)
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THE HOUSEHOLD SPIRIT, by Tod Wodicka (Pantheon). In Wodicka’s second novel, Howie Jeffries, divorced from his wife and dismissed by his daughter, rattles around in an isolated house in upstate New York. Emily Phane is the girl next door, but not in a wholesome way. An orphan brought up by her grandfather, she suffers from a disorder called sleep paralysis. After her grandfather dies Read more of this blog post »
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“The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical paradise lazing somewhere over this rim of endless, gray socialist towers. Miles of square windows explode orange, red, and purple, like a million TV sets broadcasting the apocalypse. Clouds unspool. The sky drains of birds.”
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“In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and Roland had as much to do with the majority of medieval knights as the historical Jesus with the temporal riches and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, or any church for that matter. Generally accompanied by their immoral entourage or servants, priests, and whores, they went from tourney to tourney like a touring rock and roll band, sports team, or gang of South Sea pirates. Court to court, skirmish to skirmish, rape to rape. Fighting as the noble's substitution for work.”
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“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this city will someday make.”
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