What's Important Is Feeling

"The stories in Adam Wilson's What's Important Is Feeling blend humor with emotion." -- Vanity Fair

"Adam Wilson is one of our best young writers." -- Flavorwire

"This book will bring you back to the wandering, blurred-together days of your early twenties, or, if you're a younger person with creative aspirations, remind you of your very real present." -- GQ.com

"With its tales of young men and women who can't quite grow-up, is about addiction, fear, sickness, self-doubt, family and love. But it asks us to respect its dark and damaged characters and to come feel what they feel, even if it's for just a moment in time." -- ZYZZYVA

"Getting laughs and pathos from the same work of fiction is a hard thing to do. Adam Wilson's previous book, Flatscreen, did so regularly. . . . As good as that book was, his new collection What's Important is Feeling, is even better." -- VOL. 1. BROOKLYN

"Adam Wilson is a writer on the rise." -- Buzzfeed

"[A] testosterone- and coke-fueled collection. . . . Darkly funny." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Adam Wilson can write. . . and he does so with a certain authenticity and humor that I rarely see. . . . If you enjoy the cohesive element in collections, then I can't recommend this book enough." -- LITREACTOR.COM

"Those who like to sympathize or psychoanalyze should find what they're looking for in What's Important is Feeling: Stories. Wilson's characters might be one, probably two, cards short of a full deck, but they are inarguably funny." -- VOX Magazine

"Adam Wilson's fierce tales of botched dreams, conflicted ambitions and na¯ve missteps make for a millennial Winesburg, Ohio, capturing all the idealism and cynicism of young cohorts facing tough realities." -- B&N Review

"This book is a joy ride . . . The buoyant comedy and insight of Wilson's prose carries these stories farther and farther past taboo, into sensitive and complicated territory." -- New York Times Book Review