Home of Bestselling Author Patrick Wensink

The literary Journal JMWW recently posted a stellar review of Fake Fruit Factory:

“for those who want to gaze deeply, not into the voice, but into a beating heart and the thousand voices inside of it, Fake Fruit Factory offers delight.”

It’s in the trade magazines, which makes it official now. HarperCollins will be putting out my first kid’s book in 2017.

Check out Nate’s insanely cool non-gorilla illustrations here.

Just got my review copy. Coming September 2015 from Curbside Splendor.

Men’s Health has helped me achieve a very strange dream of mine. For years I have been trying to convince a magazine editor to allow me to write an in-depth article about the bizarre, carny-like world of Christmas tree salesmen.

I have never been so proud of a piece of journalism I wrote.

During researching/writing I had two disgruntled pine tree peddlers stop talking to me, one existential breakdown and one guy who lived in a camper on a tree lot for six weeks.

Read it all here.

Very proud to announce my novel, Fake Fruit Factory, will be coming out in the Fall of 2015. It will be published by one of the hottest names in the business, Curbside Splendor.

More News to follow.

Over at Esquire Magazine I had a chance to chat with novelist and bull runner, Bill Hillmann, about his experiences being gored in this year’s Running of the Bulls in Pamplona.

Read it here.

My article in the summer issue of STORY Magazine hits newsstands today. 

My article, “Ghost Stories” is about the incredible subculture of Ghostbusters re-enactors around Kentucky. 

Over at Salon, I compared the recently uncovered haunting, beautiful Kurt Cobain crime scene images (nothing gory) to the high art photography of William Eggleston and Stephen Shore.