Tod Wodicka

His critically acclaimed first novel, All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well has been translated into German, Spanish and Dutch.{{Cite web|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=73836|title = Tod Wodicka | Penguin Random House}}{{cite web |url=http://www.tiborjones.com/author_tod_wodicka.html |title=Tibor Jones // Authors // Tod Wodicka |website=www.tiborjones.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106005124/http://www.tiborjones.com/author_tod_wodicka.html |archive-date=2009-01-06}} (The title is a quotation from the Christian mystic Julian of Norwich, also quoted by T. S. Eliot in his poem Little Gidding.) The novel was short-listed for the 2008 Believer Book Award.{{Cite web|url=http://www.believermag.com/issues/200902/?read=believer_book_awards|title = Issues}} The novel was published by Pantheon Books (US) and Jonathan Cape (UK); and Vintage Books paperback (US & UK).

All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well tells the story of Burt Hecker, a medieval re-enactor from upstate New York who travels to Prague to find his estranged son Tristan. The book is a darkly comic story about Burt's devotion to another time and his doomed attempts at coming to terms with his own history.{{Cite news|title=Mead-Drinking, Gruel-Eating, Sandal-Wearing, Reality-Fleeing Family Guy |author= Janet Maslin |newspaper= New York Times|date= 24 January 2008|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/books/24maslin.html?scp=1&sq=Lemko&st=cse |access-date= 12 December 2009}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.believermag.com/issues/200902/?read=believer_book_awards|title = Issues}}

His second novel, The Household Spirit, was published by Pantheon Books (US) and Jonathan Cape (UK) in June 2015. The Household Spirit is about the curious friendship between Howie Jeffries, a shy, 50-year-old recluse and Emily Phane, an irreverent young woman who suffers from horrific sleep paralysis attacks. It takes place in Queens Falls, the same fictional upstate New York town Wodicka wrote about in All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well. The novel was awarded a Kirkus Star and was critically acclaimed in The New Yorker, The Financial Times, Esquire Magazine, The Sunday Times, Artforum, Tank Magazine and The Independent.

Tod Wodicka's essays, criticism and fiction has appeared in The Guardian, Granta, Tank (magazine), New Statesman, South as a State of Mind, AnOther Magazine, The National, Art Papers, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 3. He wrote the afterword to David Tibet of Current 93's art book, Some Gnostic Cartoons. He has been a resident at Yaddo; a literary fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany; and a writer in residence at Het beschrijf at Passa Porta in Belgium.

• {{Cite book |last1= Wodicka |first1= Tod |author-link1= Tod Wodicka |title= All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well |url= https://archive.org/details/allshallbewellal00wodi |year= 2008 |publisher= Pantheon Books |location= New York |isbn= 978-0-375-42473-1 |oclc= 124165798 }}
• {{Cite book |last1= Wodicka |first1= Tod |author-link1= Tod Wodicka |title= The Household Spirit |url= https://archive.org/details/householdspirit0000wodi |year= 2015 |publisher= Pantheon Books |location= New York |isbn= 978-0307377050 }}

;Selected Essays

• {{cite news|title= Japanese Monkeys Fucking Japanese Deer |author= Tod Wodicka |url= https://tankmagazine.com/issue-74/features/tod-wodicka/ |magazine= Tank Magazine|date= March 2018 }} (on the new behavioral traditions of the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
• {{cite news|title= 168 Hours in Northern Michigan |author= Tod Wodicka |url= http://tankmagazine.com/issue-69/features/tod-wodicka-danielle-adair-northern-michigan/ |magazine= Tank Magazine|date= November 2016 }} (on Travel Writing & the End of the World)
• {{cite news|title= Not So Nice: On Travel Writing & Vengeance in the Côte d'Azur |author= Tod Wodicka |url= http://tankmagazine.com/issue-65/features/tod-wodicka-nice |magazine= Tank Magazine|date= November 2015 }} (on Travel Writing & Vengeance & Elton John's house)
• {{Cite news|title= Book Notes: Playlist for "The Household Spirit" |author= Tod Wodicka |url= http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2015/06/book_notes_tod_4.html |magazine= large hearted boy |date = 10 June 2015 }} (a musical playlist for "The Household Spirit")
• {{Cite news|title= The Metaphoreign Body |author= Tod Wodicka |url= http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/The-Metaphoreign-Body |newspaper= Granta|date= 4 October 2012 }} (on almost dying from a pimple in a Czech hospital)
• {{Cite news|title= Comment is Free |author= Tod Wodicka |url= http://tankmagazine.com/issue-57/features/tod-wodicka |magazine= Tank Magazine |date= October 2012 }} (On exploring the comments section of adult websites)
• {{Cite news|title= Papa, You're My Best Friend |author= Tod Wodicka |url= https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/25/tod-wodicka-all-shall-be-well |newspaper= The Guardian|date= 25 April 2009 }} (on being trapped in Germany, his young son and Brideshead Revisited)
• {{Cite news|title= Goodbye America |author= Tod Wodicka |url= http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/10/zuckerman-novel-roth-american |newspaper= New Statesman|date= 14 July 2007 }} (on Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman novels)
• {{Cite news|title= Dad's New Best Friend |author= Tod Wodicka |url= http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,2124007,00.html |newspaper= The Guardian|date= 14 July 2007 }} (on pirates, mustaches and discovering his father's homosexuality)

;Radio

• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vd1ht BBC Radio 3 The Essay] {{Cite news|title= The Reluctant Shaman }} (on suffering from Sleep Paralysis and possibly having magical powers and/or mental illness)
• [http://wamc.org/post/household-spirit-tod-wodicka#stream/0 WAMC Northeast Public Radio] (Interview about the novel, "The Household Spirit")
• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02y9jny BBC World Service - Outlook- radio program] (a reading by and interview with Tod Wodicka)
• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xqbmg BBC Radio 4 Short Story] {{Cite news|title= Enzo }} (on dark alcoholic fun in Albany, New York airport hotels)

;Interviews

• [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02y9jny BBC World Service]
• [http://wamc.org/post/household-spirit-tod-wodicka#stream/0 WAMC Northeast Public Radio]
• [http://www.exberliner.com/features/people/tod-wodicka/ ExBerliner 2015]
• [https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/gleich-knallts Der Freitag] (Interview in German.)
• [http://www.exberliner.com/features/people/in-bed-with-tod-wodicka/ ExBerliner 2011]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGqwwK1pMOQ Das Fragebuch / The Question Book]

;Reviews of All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

• {{Cite news|title= Paperback Choice. Sympathy for the Outsider |author= Nicholas Lezard

|author-link=Nicholas Lezard |url= http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2287910,00.html |format= book review |work= The Guardian |date= 28 June 2008 |quote= (You could be forgiven for thinking Wodicka has made the Lemkos up. He hasn't.) }}

• {{Cite journal|last= Lichtig |first= Toby |url=http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/07/tod-wodicka-shall-burt-history

|date= 26 July 2007 |title= Let's Get Medieval |journal= New Statesman }}

• {{Cite journal|date= 28 January 2008 |url= http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2008/01/28/080128crbn_brieflynoted1#ixzz0adNCrvBr

|title= All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

|journal= The New Yorker Books Briefly Noted }}

• {{Cite news|title=Mead-Drinking, Gruel-Eating, Sandal-Wearing, Reality-Fleeing Family Guy |author= Janet Maslin |newspaper= New York Times|date= 24 January 2008|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/books/24maslin.html?scp=1&sq=Lemko&st=cse }}

;Reviews of The Household Spirit

• [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/briefly-noted-world-without-end The New Yorker]
• [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-household-spirit-by-tod-wodicka-book-review-misfits-on-the-route-home-10285237.html The Independent] (Wodicka uses two characters’ incompatibility to his advantage, creating a dialogue of disorientation and a plot which slips seamlessly between points of view.)
• [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tod-wodicka/the-household-spirit/ Kirkus Reviews] (Starred: Wodicka’s fluid, expressive prose—dotted with quotable observations often as odd as his players—serves well his weaving of such a convincing, unexpected story from eccentricity, pain, and need.)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160808224309/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article1563807.ece The Sunday Times]
• [https://next.ft.com/content/0c94ddfa-0eb4-11e5-8aca-00144feabdc0 Financial Times]

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