Eric G. Wilson, Author . Crichton/FSG $20 (166p) ISBN 978-0-374-24066-0
This slender, powerful salvo offers a sure-to-be controversial alternative to the recent cottage industry of high-brow happiness books. Wilson, chair of Wake Forest University's English Department, claims that Americans today are too interested
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Eric G. Wilson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-15033-4
Wilson (Against Happiness) offers up his own half-guilty attraction to horror films and the like as the starting point for this meandering and self-conscious cultural analysis of morbid curiosity. Bite-size chapters point toward the idea (culled...
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Eric G. Wilson. Sarah Crichton Books, $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-374-18102-4
Literature professor Wilson (Against Happiness) delves beneath the surface of self-help platitudes in this wide-ranging yet personal work. In a series of 50 short, op-ed-style essays, he cites such thinkers as Plato, Borges, Alan Ginsberg,...
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Eric G. Wilson. Penguin Books, $17 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-313657-6
English professor Wilson (Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck) offers a whimsical guide to embracing eccentricity. He provides 99 activities that aim to foster creativity and wonderment at everyday life, encouraging readers to “spend a day as a...
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Eric G. Wilson, Author, Amado Dieguez Rodriguez, Translator Taurus $16.99 (200p) ISBN 978-970-58-0412-0
Wilson, chair of Wake Forest University's English Department, claims that Americans today are too interested in being happy. It is inauthentic and shallow, charges Wilson, to relentlessly seek happiness in a world full of tragedy. While he does not...
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