Antoine Wilson

Diane Leslie's Book Group with Author meets to discuss Antoine Wilson's new novel, Panorama City, on Thursday, November 15th at 5pm.

The best part? Antoine Wilson will be joining in the discussion!

Diesel bookseller John Evans says of the book, "What happened the first time you read Salinger, or Harper Lee, Melville, Fitzgerald, Lolita? The voices: the intimate, particular, vulnerable, powerful voices. Meet Oppen Porter, and add him to the pantheon of distinctly American voices speaking unspoken truths with startling plainness."

Panorama City tells the story of twenty-eight-year-old Oppen Porter - an open-hearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting, self-described "slow absorber" - who thinks he's dying. He's not, but from his hospital bed, he unspools into a cassette recorder a tale of self-determination, from village idiot to man of the world, for the benefit of his unborn son. Panorama City is charming and absurd, very funny and, best of all, humane through and through." --Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers.

Antoine Wilson is the author of the novel The Interloper and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is a contributing editor of A Public Space and lives and surfs in Los Angeles. Visit him online at
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There is a $20 fee for this event.

Location: Street: Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood Additional: Brentwood Country Mart - 225 26th Street, Suite 33 City: Santa Monica, Province: California Postal Code: 90402 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Thursday October 11 7pm

BookPeople & the New Writers Project Present Author Antoine Wilson speaking & signing Panorama City. BookPeople is pleased to work with the New Writers Project of the University of Texas for the first event in our collaborative New Writers Tour series. Together, we will welcome Antoine Wilson to BookPeople to speak about & sign his new novel, Panorama City.

Oppen Porter, a self-described “slow absorber,” thinks he’s dying. He’s not, but from his hospital bed, he unspools into a cassette recorder a tale of self-determination, from village idiot to man of the world, for the benefit of his unborn son.　

Written in an astonishingly charming and wise voice, Panorama City traces forty days and nights navigating the fast food joints, storefront churches, and home-office psychologists of the San Fernando Valley. Ping-ponging between his watchful and sharp-tongued aunt and an outlaw philosopher with the face "of a newly hatched crocodile," Oppen finds himself constantly in the sights of people who believe that their way is the only way for him.　

Antoine Wilson is the author of the novel The Interloper and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is a contributing editor of A Public Space and lives and surfs in Los Angeles.

This event is free and open to the public. In order to have anything signed at a BookPeople event a copy of the event book must be purchased from BookPeople. If you purchase your book from BookPeople in advance of the event, please save your receipt and present it at the event.

Thank you for supporting Antoine Wilson, the New Writers Project, and your local independent bookstore!

Location: Street: 603 N Lamar Blvd City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78703-5413 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Antoine Wilson to the store to discuss and sign his acclaimed new novel, Panorama City, on Wednesday, October 3rd at 7pm. Diesel bookseller John Evans says of the book, "What happened the first time you read Salinger, or Harper Lee, Melville, Fitzgerald, Lolita? The voices: the intimate, particular, vulnerable, powerful voices. Meet Oppen Porter, and add him to the pantheon of distinctly American voices speaking unspoken truths with startling plainness."

Panorama City tells the story of twenty-eight-year-old Oppen Porter - an open-hearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting, self-described "slow absorber" - who thinks he's dying. He's not, but from his hospital bed, he unspools into a cassette recorder a tale of self-determination, from village idiot to man of the world, for the benefit of his unborn son. "Panorama City is charming and absurd, very funny and, best of all, humane through and through." --Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers

Antoine Wilson is the author of the novel The Interloper and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is a contributing editor of A Public Space and lives and surfs in Los Angeles. Visit him online at
Location">www.antoinewilson.com.

Location: Street: 5433 College Ave City: Oakland, Province: California Postal Code: 94618-1502 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)