BookRiot  includes The Wilds in “Riot Round-up: The Best Books of 2014.”

The Wilds also appears in BookRiot’s “A Great Big Guide to 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses.”

My old friend Bill Vermin (okay, so his real name is Bill Verner) grilled me in a “Coming to Town” interview for Bull Spec magazine, asking me about textually transmitted brain parasites, “medically induced human molting,” the Southern Gothic, the incredible kindness of Jeff Vandermeer, and many other interesting things. Read the full interview here.

Kirkus lists The Wilds as one of fifteen best debut fiction books of 2014.

See full list here.

Kirkus fiction editor  Laurie Muchnick talks about the “Best Fiction Books of 2014” list.

“This might be remembered as the year the literary walls began crumbling.”

Read full article here.

Kirkus lists The Wilds as one of the “Best Fiction Books of 2014”! Check out the list here.

Vol. 1 Brooklyn asked me some great questions in this interview: “Julia Elliott on ‘The Wilds’ and ‘A Kind of Delirious Linguistic Excess.'”

True Reader Reviews asked me some great questions and also imagined what I’d look (and smell) like upon walking into a room: “If Julia rang my doorbell, I imagine her in overalls none to clean, but only with dirt from working a garden. A sun hat would be on her head and as she entered she’d bring a earthy smell to the premises that would go with the dirt under her fingernails. Everything about her would imply that this is an author who doesn’t mind sweating and getting her hands dirty.”

Read the full interview here.

The Huffington Post Books Blog just posted “The New Southern Gothic,” in which I ponder the genre and claim to suffer from “obscure yet-to-be-discovered brain parasites that might, when combined with decades of ancestral looniness, create a sensitivity to a particular species of fecund strangeness that can be described as ‘Southern Gothic.'”

My Georgia Review sponsored reading at the Globe in Athens was a transcendent experience for me–I was inspired (and tipsy) enough to attempt character voice impersonations, a first for me. The lighting was perfect, the crowd buzzed, the fiction writer fortified with a ginormous wheat beer. I’m forever grateful to Stephen Corey, David Ingle, and the rest of the crew at The Georgia Review. Janet Geddis of Avid Bookshop made the event extra special. And Barbette Houser from the Flagpole wrote a vivid summary of the event.

Read “Author Julia Elliott Intrigues at the Globe” from the Flagpole.

The Rumpus kindly highlighted The Wilds in “This Week in Short Fiction.”

“Along the lines of fabulous illustrations, have you seen the cover for Julia Elliott’s new story collection, The Wilds, birthed on Tuesday by Tin House Books? The masked, tailed, bird-hatted smiling lady on the front of Elliott’s book is eye-grabbing to say the least, but digging a little deeper, there are some hallucinogenic stories to be had within as well. The title story of her collection was published last week on Tor.com. . . .”

Check out the full article here.