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Sep 2, 2023 | 
zukus.net | Julia Fine |John Wray |Ray Nayler |Brandon Taylor
In the years when I was teaching at Clemson University (2005-2011), it was a virtual guarantee that just about every student had read at least one book entirely for pleasure and under their own initiative. In fact, by 2007, I could be confident many of them had read at least seven books for pleasure because 2007 marks the publication year of the final volume of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
chicagotribune.com | John Warner |Julia Fine |John Wray |Ray Nayler
In the years when I was teaching at Clemson University (2005-2011), it was a virtual guarantee that just about every student had read at least one book entirely for pleasure and under their own initiative.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
thebeliever.net | John Wray
Hidden halfway through The Decline of Western Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years, Penelope Spheeris’s love-it-or-loathe-it documentary about ’80s glam metal, is a modest little scene that freed my teenage brain from decades of cultural indoctrination. I’m referring, of course, to the infamous Dude-in-the-Pool interview, featuring W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes, three bottles of Smirnoff, an inflatable pool recliner, and his mom.
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
wsj.com | John Wray
The Rolling Stones in Paris in June 1965.
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
latimes.com | John Wray
For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of us, whatever our position or attitude, existed in its shade. In spite of the enormity of his shadow, however, I’ve never before written about the author of so many novels I’ve studied and admired.
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
ca.movies.yahoo.com | John Wray
For the entirety of my writing life, Cormac McCarthy has been a mountain. Some of the novelists of my generation found the mountain beautiful; others found it oppressive. But virtually all of us, whatever our position or attitude, existed in its shade. In spite of the enormity of his shadow, however, I’ve never before written about the author of so many novels I've studied and admired.
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Jun 17, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | John Wray
Nick Mondelli captures the angst of three teenagers in the 1980s who share a love of heavy metal. Kip, Leslie, and Kira--all estranged from their families or their communities--build an unbreakable bond over music and move from their small town in Florida to California. Mondelli builds tension as the group is tested and begins to falter and fracture. Desperate to save his relationship with Kira, Kip takes her on a tour of European heavy-metal music. After a show Kira disappears.
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May 24, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Sarah Gerard |John Wray
Fiction“Gone to the Wolves” follows three young Floridians shredding their way through the heavy metal scenes of the 1980s and ’90s. Send any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
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May 23, 2023 | 
thecreativeindependent.com | John Wray
John Wray is a writer and musician based in New York City. He is the author of several novels, including Lowboy, Canaan’s Tongue, and . He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Cullman Fellowship from the New York Library, and a Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin. In 2007, he was named as one of ’s Best Young American Novelists. His journalism work has appeared in the . His latest novel is the heavy metal-themed coming-of-age story .
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May 22, 2023 | 
largeheartedboy.com | John Wray
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. John Wray’s masterful storytelling is at its height in his new novel Gone to the Wolves, a book so dark and funny and filled with unforgettable fully-realized characters.
