Bang Bang Crash, Nic Brown
Bang Bang Crash, Nic Brown
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Bang Bang Crash

Author: Nic Brown

Narrator: Nic Brown

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/21/2023

Synopsis

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 Nic Brown

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lee on March 02, 2023

I’ve been in a reading funk recently and this memoir turned out to be just what I needed. Nic's rising youthful enthusiasm for music, achievement of his dreams, and the resultant ambivalence about his career and ultimate switch from drumming to writing, I found it all unsurspringly readable and enjo......more

Goodreads review by Carla on November 28, 2022

Although Brown is best known as a writer/editor and teaches creative writing at Clemson, this is a short memoir about his musical education, including the decade he was a drummer for a regionally popular alt rock band, and his struggle to figure out why he gave it all up. His band Athenaeum's bigges......more

Goodreads review by Katie on July 16, 2024

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 playing in his Walkman. He even made me a Beatles fa......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on August 12, 2023

Interesting read about Nic's career. I didn't know anything about him before reading. Enjoyed the first part of the book that centered around growing up and learning to love playing the drums.......more

Goodreads review by Steph on March 02, 2023

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.......more

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