![]() ![]() ![]() I was living in an apartment with my cousin and his best friend, whose name was Eric Haley (ph), who had gone to NYU film school. This goes all the way back to the summer after my freshman year of college, which would have been, I think, '97. SIMON: You heard these words in your own life, didn't you? WILSON: Oh, thank you so much for having me. Kevin Wilson, author of "Nothing to See Here" and other novels, joins us now from Swansea, Tenn., where he teaches at the University of the South. But its history stays buried and obscured until Frankie Budge, all grown up now and a writer, gets a call from a journalist. SIMON: What ever those words may mean, two teens, Frankie and Zeke growing up in Coalfield, Tenn., in the '90s turned them into an art project - a much-reproduced poster that becomes a national phenomenon. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us. KEVIN WILSON: (Reading) The edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. I'm going to ask Kevin Wilson to read a line that sets off so much in his new novel, "Now Is Not the Time to Panic. ![]()
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