James Brown

Works

This River
This recently completed memoir deals with similar themes covered in The Los Angeles Diaries (addiction, alcoholism, relapse, family, love and death) and will be published in hardcover by Phoenix Books in Beverly Hills in July 2010.

Excerpts have been previously published in Ploughshares, GQ, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and anthologized in Best American Sports Writing, and Fathers & Sons & Sports.

"This River is a beautifully crafted and intensely moving book. Without artifice or pretension -- without false moves of any sort -- James Brown goes after the biggest literary game: death, love, children, degeneration, hopelessness, hope. I read this book straight through, in one spellbound sitting, and I will read it again. It is so good.”

–Tim O’Brien, National Book Award winning author of Going After Cacciato, and The Things They Carried

The Los Angeles Diaries

“Each chapter shows the tool marks of the well-crafted short story, carefully and even lovingly shaped and polished until it shines...The stories amount to a memoir of stunning intimacy and unforgettable impact."

- The Los Angeles Times Book Review

“This gemlike collection... materializes in such delicate strokes that the emerging theme becomes one of almost miraculous forgiveness... ”
–San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of the Year)

Selected Works

A New Memoir

This River
"...When you put this book down, trust me, you will think about it for a long time.” - Robert Olmstead, author of the national bestseller Coal Black Horse

Memoir

The Los Angeles Diaries
“A grimly exquisite memoir that reads like a noir novel…”

–Publishers Weekly (Best Books of the Year)