Word has it that Chapel Hill’s Nic Brown is headed to Colorado for a teaching gig in August; so before he goes, be sure to take the opportunity to hear him read from his new novel, Doubles, described by Publishers Weekly as “that rare sports novel with big heart and wide appeal.†Brown will celebrate the book’s publication at The Crunkleton in Chapel Hill this Saturday at 7 p.m. Tennis whites are encouraged, and event sponsor Root liquor will offer drink specials throughout the evening.
If you can’t make that reading, come to Flyleaf Books on Tuesday at 7 p.m., McIntyre’s Fine Books July 10 at 11 a.m. or The Regulator Bookshop in Durham on July 13 at 7p.m.
Congratulations to Chapel Hill native Wells Tower for being named to the New Yorker’s list of “20 under 40†fiction writers worth watching. The list includes young writers from all over the globe who New Yorker editor David Remnick describes as “a group of promise, enormous promise.†You can get a sense of that promise when Tower’s story appears in the New Yorker later this summer, or just get hold of a copy of his fabulous short-story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, right now.
