The Gaines Center and UL Creative Writing Program Present:
This Thursday the AMAZING novelist and musician WILLY VLAUTIN will read at
the Gaines Center at 7:30pm, along with TNRS' Louis Toliver. A reception
from 5:30- 7:00pm at the Gaines' House precedes the event.
Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Vlautin started playing guitar and
writing songs as a teenager and quickly became immersed in music. It was a
Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver's "Too Much Water So Close to
Home," that inspired him to start writing stories. Vlautin has published
three novels, THE MOTEL LIFE (2007), NORTHLINE (2008), and LEAN ON PETE
(2010). LEAN ON PETE earned Vlautin the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. The
film version of THE MOTEL LIFE is slated for a 2012 release and stars
Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsh, Stephen Dorff, and Kris Kristofferson. Willy
Vlautin is also singer-songwriter for the band RICHMOND FONTAINE:
http://richmondfontaine.com/
LEAN ON PETE has been short-listed for the prestigious International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award. The IMPAC award is the largest and most
international prize of its kind with nominations submitted by libraries
all over the world for books in any language. Lean on Pete has also been
translated into French, and Vlautin is just off a big tour in Europe with
his band, Richmond Fontaine,opening forThe Jayhawks, and doing a couple of
weeks doing appearances in France for the publication of his Lean on Pete
there. The French publisher, 13e Note Editions, is well known for
publishing such great authors as Nelson Algren, Barry Gifford, Charles
Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs Jr.
In addition to being short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, LEAN ON
PETE received the 2010 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and Literary Arts/The
Oregonian Peoples' Choice Award, was placed at #3 on The Independent's "50
Best Winter Reads", is one of Roddy Doyle's four favorite books of the
year, made Uncut's Top Ten Books of 2010 and the Oregonian's and Chicago
Sun Times' Best Books of 2010, and was Hot Press #1 Book of the Year.
If you want to find out more about this amazing writer, you can visit his
website: http://www.willyvlautin.com/
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