Thursday, March 30 at 6 pm – Celebrating the Oxford Conference For The Book! Join us in the cozy confines of the lobby of the Graduate Hotel!
Venue: Graduate Oxford – 400 N Lamar Blvd, Oxford, MS 38655
Doors: 5:30 pm – Show: 6 pm – Bar service available
Admission: FREE! (Public invited. No conference pass required). Come early and bring your posse!
Author: Nic Brown (Bang Bang Crash) “Charming . . . A nostalgia-rich ode to optimism.”- Garden and Gun
Music: Charlie Parr (Last of the Better Days Ahead) and Tyler Keith (Hell to Pay)
Hosts: Jim Dees and the Yalobushwhacker Big Band featuring the Thacker Horns!
Featuring...
Nic Brown for his new novel Bang Bang Crash.
About the Book
A rock and roll drummer abandons his successful music career to pursue his true passion and discovers a deeper understanding of artistic fulfillment in this episodic memoir of swapping one dream for another
In the mid-1990s, fresh out of high school, Nic Brown was living his childhood dream as a rock and roll drummer. Signing a major label record deal, playing big shows, hitting the charts, giving interviews in Rolling Stone, appearing on The Tonight Show—what could be better for a young artist? But contrary to expectations, getting a shot at his artistic dream early in life was a destabilizing shock. The more he achieved, the more accolades that came his way, the less sure Brown became about his path.
Only a few years into a promising musical career, he discovered the crux of his discontent: he was never meant to remain behind the drums. In fact, his true artistic path lay in a radically different direction entirely: he decided to become a writer, embarking on a journey leading him to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, publish novels and short stories, and teach literature to college students across the country.
Bang Bang Crash tells the story of Nic Brown’s unusual journey to gain new strength, presence of mind, and sense of perspective, enabling him to discover an even greater life of artistic fulfillment.
About the Author
NIC BROWN is the author of the novels In Every Way, Doubles, and Floodmarkers, which was selected as an Editors' Choice by The New York Times Book Review. He is the fiction editor of the South Carolina Review, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and the Harvard Review, among many other publications. As a drummer, he has worked with Athenaeum, Ben Lee, Longwave, Skeleton Key, and Eszter Balint. 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 an associate professor of creative writing at Clemson University.
Air times:
Thursday, March 30 – 6:00 pm (CT) WUMS – University of Mississippi
Friday, April 7 – 6 am WYXR 91.7 FM Memphis, TN.
Saturday, April 8 –3 pm (ET) University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
7pm (CT) Mississippi Public Broadcasting
9pm (CT) Alabama Public Radio
Sunday, April 9 – 3 pm (ET) WUOT | 91.9 FM, Knoxville
A rock and roll drummer abandons his successful music career to pursue his true passion and discovers a deeper understanding of artistic fulfillment in this episodic memoir of swapping one dream for another