8 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:5.00

Nic Brown’s Followers (38)

Nic’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (0)
read (9)

Nic’s Friends (45)

Peter

197 books | 90 friends

Caroline

406 books | 13 friends

Mia

680 books | 280 friends

Ash says Free Palestine

10,448 books | 3,753 friends

Lee Klein

1,976 books | 1,242 friends

Edan

817 books | 571 friends

Grayson VanDyke

41 books | 4 friends

Three Rooms Press

214 books | 510 friends

More friends…

Nic Brown

Goodreads Author

Website

http://www.nicbrown.net

Member Since

June 2007

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/nicbrown

edit data

Nic Brown is the author of the memoir Bang Bang Crash, as well as the novels In Every Way, Doubles, and Floodmarkers, which was selected as an Editors' Choice by The New York Times Book Review. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, and the Harvard Review, among many other publications. A graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has served as the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi and is now a professor of creative writing at Clemson University. ...more

Combine Editions
Nic Brown’s books

Average rating: 3.53 · 543 ratings · 91 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	In Every Way 3.31 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Floodmarkers 3.50 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bang Bang Crash 4.08 avg rating — 100 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doubles 3.50 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes (33 1/3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Nic Brown…

rss
Nic’s Recent Updates

Nic Brown liked Alicia's review of Bang Bang Crash: "This was an awesome little essay memoir for several reasons: first, it's easy listening narrated by Brown himself with soothing revelry in his past. Second, it's not overindulgent or overwritten as Brown recounts his life mostly as a drummer but wrap" Read more of this review »
Sep 06, 2025 07:03PM · see review
Nic Brown and 2 other people liked Peter's review of Bang Bang Crash: "Full disclosure: I am also a drummer and a writer and a survivor of time on Atlantic Records in the 90s, so I am as Target Audience as a reader can get. That could have backfired, too--like, I can be super hard on books about music, and have been kno" Read more of this review »
May 25, 2025 06:19PM · see review
Nic Brown has read Bang Bang Crash by Nic Brown (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Feb 12, 2025 08:51AM · 2 likes · like
Nic Brown and 1 other person liked Katie's review of Bang Bang Crash: "Favorite chapters- Sleep and Other Musicians. I noticed other reviewers said they really liked the early childhood part. I liked the part once he graduated high school. Maybe it’s because I knew the 5th grader with the long bangs and Helter Skelter pl" Read more of this review »
Jul 21, 2024 09:57AM · see review
Nic Brown and 1 other person liked Steph Burdorff's review of Bang Bang Crash: "I might be a little biased knowing the author as the drummer of one of my favorite bands. But this book is an excellent read for anyone who has been embarrassed about changing their path and dreams."
Jun 02, 2024 08:56AM · see review

More of Nic's books…

Quotes by Nic Brown (?)

“In this moment, Maria uncodes how parents carry on through defect, deformity, and sickness. It doesn’t matter what sex this child is, she thinks, or how it is, or why it is. It only matters that it is. ANNE”
― Nic Brown, In Every Way

1 likes

“Maria has had to admit she desires only the moments of parental ease removed from the stretches of labor between. And those stretches, Maria thinks, are the miles where people become parents.”
― Nic Brown, In Every Way

0 likes

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Seasonal Read...: Summer Challenge 2011: Reading Plans	44	303	Aug 20, 2011 01:54PM
The Seasonal Read...: * Summer Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS)	2614	899	Aug 31, 2011 09:18PM