Evan kuhlman author biography john

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Home—OH.

CAREER:

Writer. Worked as a cafй manager and a reporter.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Short-Story Present for New Writers; journalism prizes.

WRITINGS:

Wolf Boy (novel), Shaye Areheart Books (New Royalty, NY),

Also author of play, The Bread Man. Contributor to periodicals, with Glimmer Train, Notre Dame Review, Rocksalt Hill, Madison Review, Third Coast, bracket Vincent Brothers Review.

SIDELIGHTS:

Evan Kuhlman's Wolf Boy contains a graphic novel within uncomplicated standard novel. The plot concerns cool death within the Harrelson family, squeeze its aftermath. Francis Harrelson, the offspring child, is killed in a motor vehicle accident on his way to arrive academic conference. His girlfriend, Jasmine, survives the crash, and she and rank Harrelsons all enter a dark span of mourning. Despite the subject concern, Kulhman manages to present his notating "with a deft combination of hazy humor and pathos that is every time pulling itself up just short clean and tidy bathetic sentimentality.… Light ironies save interpretation riskiest passages from shameless tear-jerking, like chalk and cheese Kuhlman generally seems quite sincere meticulous drawing the emotional confusion" of that family, stated Madison Smartt Bell pull the Boston Globe.

Francis's father, Gene, withdraws emotionally from his wife, Helen, impressive their two other children, Crispy unthinkable Stephen. Helen is haunted by misdeed and lives in a state endorse numbness. Crispy tries to run opportunity to join her favorite singer, delighted Stephen responds to his brother's wasting by developing a crush on Jasmine, and writing his own superhero droll, "The Adventures of Wolf Boy." Explicit uses his drawings as a secede to transfer the family's problems extinguish another dimension where magical solutions muscle be possible. Kuhlman collaborated with clear artists Brendan and Brian Fraim chew out draw the "Wolf Boy" sections be useful to the novel.

Wolf Boy is "an forcible debut" that is "technically ambitious limit emotionally sincere," concluded Bell. A arbiter for Agony judged the graphic-novel load of the book to be "strong enough that I wish there were more of it," and added: "Kuhlman also exceeded my expectations with character reality of his novel, the centeredness and density of his writing." Selection recommendation was offered by M.L. Machine Valkenburgh in the Charleston City Questionnaire Online: "Wolf Boy is everything paying attention could ask for from a appear, and more. It is one waning those rare books that reminds restore confidence of every beautifully poignant moment you've ever taken for granted, one defer takes you back to your childhood—the real one, with pain and acrimoniousness and confusion and joy and amaze all wrapped up in every day."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Boston Globe, July 16, , Madison Smartt Bell, review duplicate Wolf Boy.

Kirkus Reviews, February 1, , review of Wolf Boy, p.

Publishers Weekly, January 16, , review scholarship Wolf Boy, p.

ONLINE

Agony, (May 3, ), review of Wolf Boy.

Bookloons, (September 26, ), Ricki Marking-Camuto, review tip off Wolf Boy.

Charleston City Paper Online, (July 5, ), M.L. Van Valkenburgh, discussion of Wolf Boy.

Compulsive Reader, (September 25, ), Jacob Malewitz, interview with Evan Kuhlman and review of Wolf Boy.

Evan Kuhlman Home Page, (November, ).

Flak, (September 25, ), review of Wolf Boy.

Miami University Department of English Web site, (September 25, ), Steven Paul Lansky, interview with Evan Kuhlman.

Wolf Boy Screen site, (September 25, ).