Let Me Look at You
Alum, 2011 - Creative Writing at The New School
Brain Mill Press, 2025
Michael J. Wilson’s character-driven debut captures the loneliness of urban millennial life and the peril of becoming enamored with strangers solely through their social media personas.
“Contessa became a fixture in my mind a year ago when I saw her board the train.” So begins protagonist Adrian Bellinger’s obsession—a chance encounter with a strange woman ignites a pursuit that exposes the numb intimacy of the digital age. Dissecting the culture of online behavior in the not-quite-here-and-now of Brooklyn, New York, Let Me Look at You is both a seductive whisper and a frustrated demand suggesting that the thresholds of pathological behavior have shifted as technology changes our daily habits and behaviors.