Emil Wilson on Memory, Family, and Graphic Storytelling – The Writing Coach Ep. 229
In this episode of The Writing Coach podcast, I sit down with Emil Wilson to talk about how a former advertising and design professional who didn't grow up reading comics ended up creating The Nightingales, a genre-blurring work that feels part graphic novel, part literary memoir, and part sketchbook of memory itself. We dig into the book's bold formal choices (no panels, mixed media, pages that feel torn from a working artist's notebook) and how those decisions grew directly out of the question, "What does memory actually look like on the page?"
We also explore how Emil's background in…
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