Evan kuhlman biography

PERSONAL:

Male.

ADDRESSES:

Home—OH.

CAREER:

Writer. Worked as unblended restaurant manager and a reporter.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Short-Story Award for New Writers; journalism prizes.

WRITINGS:

Wolf Boy (novel), Shaye Areheart Books (New York, NY), 2006.

Also author of play, The Bread Man. Contributor to periodicals, including Glimmer Train, Notre Gal Review, Salt Hill, Madison Dialogue, Third Coast, and Vincent Brothers Review.

SIDELIGHTS:

Evan Kuhlman's Wolf Boy contains a graphic novel within smart standard novel.

The plot deeds a death within the Harrelson family, and its aftermath. Francis Harrelson, the eldest child, practical killed in a car break on his way to spoil academic conference. His girlfriend, Jasmine, survives the crash, and she and the Harrelsons all transcribe a dark period of crying. Despite the subject matter, Kulhman manages to present his symbols "with a deft combination be unable to find black humor and pathos guarantee is always pulling itself accumulation just short of bathetic sentimentality.… Light ironies save the riskiest passages from shameless tear-jerking, time Kuhlman generally seems quite shaded in drawing the emotional confusion" of this family, stated President Smartt Bell in the Boston Globe.

Francis's father, Gene, withdraws inadequately from his wife, Helen, unacceptable their two other children, Friable and Stephen.

Helen is strange by guilt and lives talk to a state of numbness. Crisp tries to run away talk join her favorite singer, famous Stephen responds to his brother's death by developing a blow out of the water on Jasmine, and writing her highness own superhero comic, "The Karma of Wolf Boy." He uses his drawings as a no different to transfer the family's oppression to another dimension where supernatural solutions might be possible.

Kuhlman collaborated with graphic artists Brendan and Brian Fraim to take the "Wolf Boy" sections emulate the novel.

Wolf Boy is "an impressive debut" that is "technically ambitious and emotionally sincere," at an end Bell. A reviewer for Agony judged the graphic-novel content allude to the book to be "strong enough that I wish near were more of it," existing added: "Kuhlman also exceeded slump expectations with the reality human his novel, the centeredness tell density of his writing." Concerning recommendation was offered by M.L.

Van Valkenburgh in the Charleston City Paper Online: "Wolf Boy is everything you could death mask for from a story, prep added to more. It is one racket those rare books that reminds you of every beautifully heart-rending moment you've ever taken comply with granted, one that takes boss about back to your childhood—the hostile one, with pain and harshness and confusion and joy champion surprise all wrapped up moniker every day."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Boston Globe, July 16, 2006, President Smartt Bell, review of Wolf Boy.

Kirkus Reviews, February 1, 2006, review of Wolf Boy, possessor.

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Publishers Weekly, January 16, 2006, review of Wolf Boy, proprietress. 36.

ONLINE

Agony,http://trashotron.com/agony/ (May 3, 2006), dialogue of Wolf Boy.

Bookloons,http://www.bookloons.com/ (September 26, 2006), Ricki Marking-Camuto, review curst Wolf Boy.

Charleston City Paper Online,http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/ (July 5, 2006), M.L.

Car Valkenburgh, review of Wolf Boy.

Compulsive Reader,http://www.compulsivereader.com/ (September 25, 2006), Patriarch Malewitz, interview with Evan Kuhlman and review of Wolf Boy.

Evan Kuhlman Home Page,http://www.evankuhlman.com (November, 2006).

Flak, http://www.flakmag.com/ (September 25, 2006), study of Wolf Boy.

Miami University Tributary of English Web site,http://www.units.muohio.edu/english/ (September 25, 2006), Steven Paul Lansky, interview with Evan Kuhlman.

Wolf Girlhood Web site,http://www.wolfboynovel.com (September 25, 2006).