{"id":1569,"date":"2023-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T19:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:45:29","slug":"now-is-not-the-time-to-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/now-is-not-the-time-to-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is Not the Time to Panic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Kevin Wilson<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Text Publishing<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, February 18th 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the summer of 1996, the town of Coalfield, Tennessee, is plastered with posters proclaiming this enigmatic message set amongst a background of desolation. Before long, the words and images are appropriated and spread by rebellious teens and aging hippies, eventually becoming cultural icons. Meanwhile, conservatives denounce them as satanic, tearing them down as fast as they are put up. Although the panic eventually dissipates (not without casualties), the origin and meaning of the artworks remain a mystery. Certainly, nobody suspects 16-year-old Frankie Budge or her friend Zeke Brown. But for these two lonely, awkward teens, the posters\u2019 creation and dissemination becomes the defining moment of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Wilson\u2019s attempt to get inside the head of a teenage girl is not fully convincing, but he successfully captures the adolescent need to find a unique voice and identity, as well as the euphoria of discovering another of your tribe. Similarly, the Coalfield Panic may be underwhelming in the telling, but the novel speaks eloquently to the power of art: <em>\u201cit was beautiful, and then somebody else\u2026made it not beautiful.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Wilson Text Publishing Otago Daily Times, February 18th 2023 \u201cThe edge is a shantytown filled with gold seekers. We are fugitives, and the law is skinny with hunger for us.\u201d In the summer of 1996, the town of Coalfield, Tennessee, is plastered with posters proclaiming this enigmatic message set amongst a background of desolation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[428,370,433,18],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-428","tag-fiction","tag-kevin-wilson","tag-odt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}