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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

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	In Every Way 3.31 avg rating — 222 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 3.48 avg rating — 127 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 3.51 avg rating — 97 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) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 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

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Nic Brown liked Jeannette's review of Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes: "Full Disclosure: I received an Advanced Reader's Copy of Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes by Nic Brown from Bloomsbury Academic via NetGalley. This book will be published around May 14, 2026. Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes by Nic Brown is part of the 33" Read more of this review »
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Nic Brown liked LibraryNinja_Beritk's review of Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes (33 1/3): "This review is biased because I've been a fan of the Violent Femmes since the '80s. When I got the opportunity to read a book about their debut album, everything else in my life went on hold. While most of us know the lyrics, we don't know the storie" Read more of this review »
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Nic Brown liked Book Club of One's review of Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes (33 1/3): "The Violent Femmes' debut Violent Femmes was released in 1983 and had a slow build before eventually becoming the bands' best known work. Musician and writer, Nic Brown's, Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes for the 33 1/3 series is both a deep investiga" Read more of this review »
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Nic Brown liked Alex Sarll's review of Violent Femmes' Violent Femmes (33 1/3): "Probably the funniest 33 1/3 I've ever read – intentionally funny, at any rate. Granted, one of the many reasons music biopics are the single most worthless artform is their Procrustean insistence on matching every act to the same easily digested tem" Read more of this review »
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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

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“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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