2023 One Book, Everyone Reads | Wilmette Public Library

Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Join us this spring as we read and explore our 2023 One Book, Everyone Reads selection, Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson! Everyone is invited to share their perspective at a book discussion, attend a program, and join us on May 11 when we welcome Kevin Wilson to our library to discuss his book.

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One Book, Everyone Reads Author Event

Kevin Wilson in Conversation with Alison Cuddy

Thursday, May 11, 7pm, Teens, Adults, Virtual

Join us as we welcome author Kevin Wilson to the library for our One Book, Everyone Reads signature event. He will be discussing this year's One Book selection, his coming-of-age novel, Now is Not the Time to Panic, with journalist and radio host Alison Cuddy. A Q & A will follow the conversation, and members of the Zoom audience will be invited to submit written questions during the program. This event is free and open to the public, but those interested in attending must register. All who register to attend will receive a Zoom link for the event prior to the start of the program.

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Express Yourself!

The protagonists in Now is Not the Time to Panic made waves with their original art and you can too! Sign up for a Maker Appointment to use the library's creative equipment. Learn more and sign up on our Maker Services page.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Now is Not the Time to Panic is an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever.

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A bold coming-of-age story, written with Kevin Wilson’s trademark wit and blazing prose, Now Is Not the Time to Panic is a nuanced exploration of young love, identity, and the power of art. It’s also about the secrets that haunt us—and, ultimately, what the truth will set free. (from the publisher)

Now is Not the Time to Panic is a national bestseller and was named Best Book of the Year by: Time, Kirkus Reviews, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, Garden & Gun, Vox, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The New York Times Review

The Washington Post Review

Kevin Wilson on NPR

Kevin Wilson on Today

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Wilson is the author of two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine. In addition to the upcoming We Are Fugitives and 2019’s Nothing to See Here (selected by Jenna Bush Hager for the Read with Jenna book club, and a Best Book of the Year according to The New York Times, Washington Post, People, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, and more) Kevin is also the author of the novels The Family Fang—a NYT bestseller adapted into a film starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman—and the critically acclaimed Perfect Little World. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and has appeared in two volumes of the Best American Short Stories anthology as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Rivendell, and the KHN Center for the Arts. Kevin lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and his sons, Griff and Patch, where he is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of the South.