Pluck one string, and images start forming: rural family gatherings, dirt-floor dances, and simple picking on a porch as the sun sets. Few instruments conjure place more powerfully than the banjo.
Brown is the author of the novel Doubles and the story collection Floodmakers. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Glimmer Train, Epoch and the Harvard Review. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and Columbia University, Brown is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado.
Pluck one string, and images start forming: rural family gatherings, dirt-floor dances, and simple picking on a porch as the sun sets. Few instruments conjure place more powerfully than the banjo.
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