James Brown

James Brown is the author of the memoirs, The Los Angeles Diaries, and This River. Apology to the Young Addict, his third memoir and the last of a trilogy, will be published by Counterpoint Books in March 2020. Brown has also written several novels, including Final Performance and Lucky Town. He's received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Nelson Algren Award in Short Fiction. His work has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Ploughshares, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New England Quarterly, and anthologized in Best American Sports Writing; Fathers, Sons and Sports: Great American Sports Writing; and the college textbooks Oral Interpretations, and Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief.