What people say
“I am a long-time fan of Kirk Wilson's darkly funny, slyly philosophical, and wonderfully surprising stories, each of which finds its own precise, fresh language to orbit a mystery. Emily Dickinson rises again from a box labeled ‘Inflatable Immortals,’ a hard-drinking nun hears confessions, Shirley Temple routes her sparkling undead voice through cemetery light, a God-haunted couple flees the apocalypse for Dallas, and a goat's uncanny eye reveals how much exists ‘outside the little circus ring of things you can perceive.’ Really, that just scratches the surface of what Wilson can make live with his perfectly tuned sentences. Out of Season is pure pleasure from a uniquely gifted writer.”
“Who else writes with such twisted light? Kirk Wilson’s Out of Season reminds us that the supernatural is in our marrow, in stories that are at once unruly, intelligent, funny, consecrated, doomed, and rich with plants and animals. They feel a lot like the world right now, and they’re exquisite.”
“Each of these wildly creative stories of loss and redemption opens new windows onto the human soul. Readers will find tales both haunting and complex, eerie and deeply imagined, reminiscent in ways of the inventive, agile fictions of David Means and Lauren Groff. Kirk Wilson hits for the literary fences with this stellar collection. I can’t wait to read more from him.”