Adam Wilson

Bankers prowl Brooklyn bars on the eve of the stock market crash. A debate over Young Elvis versus Vegas Elvis turns existential. Detoxing junkies use a live lobster to spice up their love life. Students on summer break struggle to escape the orbit of a seemingly utopic communal house. And in the title story, selected for The Best American Short Stories, two film school buddies working on a doomed project are left sizing up their own talent, hoping...

An excerpt from Adam Wilson's debut short story collection, What's Important Is Feeling, which humorously pinpoints our most desperate moments of longing-sexual and otherwise. "Soft Thunder" is a short story about the members of a high school garage band who fall for the same girl and then keep falling. The twelve stories in What's Important is Feeling follow the through-line of contemporary American coming-of-age: from the ravings of teenage lust,...

The final season in the trilogy starts three years on from the last season, and five years on from the start. There is a bold, new crime story, which forces residents to ask themselves whether the town has a crack running through it caused by Danny Latimer₂s death, is this new crime somehow the long-term legacy of that dark moment? The central characters must contend with this possibility as they battle to make hope, friendship, and love triumph...

It's a long way from a basement apartment in a Montreal suburb to a new life on a fictional planet, but that's the destination our unnamed narrator has set his sights on, bringing readers with him on an off-beat and often hilarious journey. Along the way, he writes poems, buys groceries at the dollar store, and earns minimum wage at a dead-end supermarket job. In between treatments for his cystic fibrosis and the constant drip-drip-drip of disappointment,...

Tracker (Romano Orzari), a fallen Mafia boss, now operates a seedy video store as a front for a host of petty crimes-from fencing jewelry to peddling dope and illegal porn-all in hopes of returning to power. In the series pilot, Tracker receives a "friendly" visit from his old "colleague"" Khivisto (Vlasta Vrana), head of the Balkan crime family, reminding him of his debts. Back at the store, he makes a deal with a regular supplier and accidentally...

Tracker (Romano Orzari), Buzz (Michael Biehn), Ace (Adam Kenneth Wilson) and Floyd (Aaron Berg) go to Hollywood Hits to teach Paul (Mike Smith) a lesson. At the video store, Mafia goons looking for Tracker hold Sarah (Kate Ross) and Sam (Marc Senior) hostage.

Power moves by the Don and Mistress leads to a brewing gang war, while Buzz (Michael Biehn) goes on the hunt for the missing gypsy. At Khvisto's (Vlasta Vrana) underground fight club, halfway between an MMA match and a joy division, Tracker receives a fateful ultimatum. He is kidnapped as he delivers Khvisto message.

Tracker's operation is finally making money but he's haunted by dreams of a vengeful gypsy. Sarah (Kate Ross) moves in with Sam (Marc Senior), but has her doubts about their future. Jaime's (Leslie Seiler) escorts are turning profits and stomachs, while Ace (Adam Kenneth Wilson) and JR (Gavin Crawford) make an avant-garde porno.

Tracker seeks revenge. There will be blood.

As Tracker (Romano Orzari) recovers from an operation, Ace's (Adam Kenneth Wilson) cathouse descends into carnage, forcing Jaime (Leslie Seiler) to take over. And Sarah's relationship with her junkie boyfriend Myles (Tyler Kyte) comes to a messy end.