Tod Wodicka
Tod Wodicka | |
|---|---|
| Wodicka reading at Solitude Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 2016 | |
| Born | May 30, 1976 |
| Occupation | Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Manchester |
Tod Wodicka (born May 30, 1976) is an American author who grew up in Queensbury, New York. He has lived in Manchester, England; Prague; Rock City Falls; and Moscow. He currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
He graduated from the University of Manchester in the UK.
Work
[edit | edit source]Novels
[edit | edit source]All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
[edit | edit source]His critically acclaimed first novel, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well has been translated into German, Spanish and Dutch.[1][2] (The title is a quotation from the Christian mystic Julian of Norwich, also quoted by T. S. Eliot in his poem Little Gidding.) The novel was short-listed for the 2008 Believer Book Award.[3] The novel was published by Pantheon Books (US) and Jonathan Cape (UK); and Vintage Books paperback (US & UK).
All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well tells the story of Burt Hecker, a medieval re-enactor from upstate New York who travels to Prague to find his estranged son Tristan. The book is a darkly comic story about Burt's devotion to another time and his doomed attempts at coming to terms with his own history.[4][5]
The Household Spirit
[edit | edit source]His second novel, The Household Spirit, was published by Pantheon Books (US) and Jonathan Cape (UK) in June 2015. The Household Spirit is about the curious friendship between Howie Jeffries, a shy, 50-year-old recluse and Emily Phane, an irreverent young woman who suffers from horrific sleep paralysis attacks. It takes place in Queens Falls, the same fictional upstate New York town Wodicka wrote about in All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well. The novel was awarded a Kirkus Star and was critically acclaimed in The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Esquire Magazine, The Sunday Times, Artforum, Tank Magazine and The Independent.
Other work
[edit | edit source]Tod Wodicka's essays, criticism and fiction has appeared in The Guardian, Granta, Tank (magazine), New Statesman, South as a State of Mind, AnOther Magazine, The National, Art Papers, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3. He wrote the afterword to David Tibet of Current 93's art book, Some Gnostic Cartoons. He has been a resident at Yaddo; a literary fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany; and a writer in residence at Het beschrijf at Passa Porta in Belgium.
Bibliography
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Selected Essays
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- Radio
- BBC Radio 3 The Essay Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (on suffering from Sleep Paralysis and possibly having magical powers and/or mental illness)
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio (Interview about the novel, "The Household Spirit")
- BBC World Service - Outlook- radio program (a reading by and interview with Tod Wodicka)
- BBC Radio 4 Short Story Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (on dark alcoholic fun in Albany, New York airport hotels)
- Interviews
- BBC World Service
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- ExBerliner 2015
- Der Freitag (Interview in German.)
- ExBerliner 2011
- Das Fragebuch / The Question Book
- Reviews of All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
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- Reviews of The Household Spirit
- The New Yorker
- The Independent (Wodicka uses two characters’ incompatibility to his advantage, creating a dialogue of disorientation and a plot which slips seamlessly between points of view.)
- Kirkus Reviews (Starred: Wodicka’s fluid, expressive prose—dotted with quotable observations often as odd as his players—serves well his weaving of such a convincing, unexpected story from eccentricity, pain, and need.)
- The Sunday Times
- Financial Times
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