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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

Average rating: 3.53 · 543 ratings · 91 reviews · 5 distinct worksSimilar authors
In Every Way

3.31 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Floodmarkers

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"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 »
Nic Brown and 2 other people liked Peter's review of Bang Bang Crash:
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"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 »
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Nic Brown and 1 other person liked Katie's review of Bang Bang Crash:
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"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 »
Nic Brown and 1 other person liked Steph Burdorff's review of Bang Bang Crash:
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"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."
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“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

“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

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