Today's conversation is with Antoine Wilson, author of Mouth to Mouth- featured on Obama’s summer reading list and named best book of 2022 by Vogue, Esquire, NPR and others. Antoine was born in Montreal and raised in California and Saudi Arabia, he now lives in Los Angeles with his family.

Antoine hasn’t had a drink in over 10 years, although he is fairly new to this “sober curious” space. In his latest novel, Mouth to Mouth the narrator is a non-drinker as well. We discuss how our personal choice to remove alcohol from our lives can inform our creations and creativity as a whole. We talk about how powerful language can be - especially in a discovery phase and how new words and terms create space for people to express themselves free of judgment.

We turn the questions over to the audience around 37:00 minutes in!

Mouth to Mouth summary:

A successful art dealer confesses the story of his rise to a former classmate in an airport bar – a story that begins with his rescue and resuscitation of a drowning man, with whom he will become inextricably linked, to disturbing ends.

With Highsmithian undertones and propulsive pacing, Mouth to Mouth raises big questions—about accountability, identity, morality and fate—in a story both profound and compulsively readable.

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