What's Important Is Feeling

<p>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.</p><p>And in the title story selected for <em>The Best American Short Stories</em> two film school buddies working on a doomed project are left sizing up their own talent hoping to come out on top--but fearing they won't.</p><p>In <em>What's Important Is Feeling</em> Adam Wilson follows the through-line of contemporary coming-of-age from the ravings of teenage lust to the staggering loneliness of proto-adulthood. He navigates the tough terrain of American life with a delicate balance of comedy and compassion lyricism and unsparing straightforwardness. Wilson's characters wander through a purgatory of yearning hope and grief. No one emerges unscathed.</p>