It took me damn near a week to convince Sue-Bee to come watch this guy shoot himself in the face. “Why would I wanna do something like that, Guster?” she asked me, which seemed like a dumb question because why does anyone want to do anything? It just seemed like fun, that’s all.<\/em><\/p>\n The book includes extras<\/span><\/strong>, like “The Stories Behind the Stories,” a little essay from the author, and an interview. He says:<\/strong><\/p>\n This is how I came to writing . . . I read book after book by authors infinitely more talented than myself and tried to learn from them. The only strange detail was that, as I was writing and reading, I was saying to myself, “Kevin, this is going to get you laid.” It did not. This was for the best.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kevin Wilson‘s Tunneling to the Center of the Earth collects eleven short stories including “The Shooting Man”: It took me damn near a week to convince Sue-Bee to come watch this guy shoot himself in the face. “Why would I wanna do something like that, Guster?” she asked me, which seemed like a dumb question […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odum-library"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"tunneling\"](\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/03\/tunneling.jpg\" "\\"tunneling\\"")
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