NightSun Dan Vining 9781945572647

Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University

His novel The Quick sold over 10k copies

Former editor for Rolling Stone

Was a teacher for Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, who may blurb the book

Similar to Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) and Inherent Vice

Genre fiction that's written like literary fiction

Events in Los Angeles, Florida, Big Sur, Twentynine Palms

Speaking engagement at the American Film Institute

Featured author at Bouchercon 2017 in Toronto, Canada

Doing an op-ed on his experiences with Harry Crews in Florida for the Miami Herald or another similar publication

In conversation event with Michael Keaton in Los Angeles

About the Author
Dan Vining was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford and taught there. Previously, he was a newspaper reporter, a writer and editor at Rolling Stone as well as a screenwriter and Senior Lecturer at the American Film Institute Conservatory. He is the author of The Quick and The Next (Berkeley Books), an omnibus edition of which came out as Among the Living. He lives in one version of Los Angeles.


Reviews
Praise for The Next "Vining adeptly blends crime and the supernatural in his second noir outing." -Publishers Weekly "...supernatural-thriller devotees will be interested in watching this projected series develop." -Booklist"The most surprising plot twist I've ever read maybe anywhere." -Flint Dille, screenwriter of Constantine Praise for The Quick "Vining's neo-noir prose sports a refreshing 21st-century hipness that owes nothing to Chandler and Hammett." -Publishers Weekly "Strange, haunting, cool-and very hard to put down." -Michael Marshall, author of The Straw Men


Awards
Winner of Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry 1972 (United States).



Book Information
ISBN 9781945572647
Author Dan Vining
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Rare Bird Books
Publisher Rare Bird Books