# Event Details

- **Event Name**: A Conversation with Nic Brown + John T. Edge for Violent Femmes @ Proud Larry's
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Proud Larrys and Square Books Presents... 

A Conversation with Nic Brown and John T. Edge feat. musical performance from Shannon Ferguson

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Excerpt from The Local Voice

Violent Femmes is the latest in the 33 1/3 series, about the iconoclastic album from the alternative 80s that altered the course of popular music.

Featuring music from producer and guitarist with New York City’s indie rock band Longwave, Shannon Ferguson.

The self-titled debut from Milwaukee post-punk acoustic trio Violent Femmes is one of those rare albums that seems to have altered the course of popular music and influenced just about everyone who heard it while also managing to operate almost entirely outside of the mainstream. In Violent Femmes, the latest addition to the 33 1/3 series (“Religious tracts for the rock ’n’ roll faithful” —Boldtype), author Nic Brown investigates the creation of such iconic songs as “Blister in the Sun,” “Kiss Off,” “Add it Up,” and “Gone Daddy Gone,” as well as the album’s recording process with rare access to the band and their archives.

Nic Brown is a writer and a musician. He has published several books, including the memoir Bang Bang Crash (Counterpoint, 2023), which was named a book of the year by Library Journal and Booklist, as well as the novels In Every Way (Counterpoint, 2015), Doubles (Counterpoint, 2010), and Floodmarkers (Counterpoint, 2009), which was selected as an Editors’ Choice

by The New York Times Book Review.

Nic’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, Oxford American, and the Harvard Review, among many other publications. He has served as the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi and is now a professor of creative writing at Clemson University.

He is also a drummer. With his first band, Athenaeum, Nic released two records on Atlantic Records. The first single off their first album peaked at #14 on the Billboard Alternative Rock charts. He has since recorded and toured with many acts, including Ben Lee, Longwave, Skeleton Key, Kim Richey, Matt Pond PA, and Eszter Balint.

John T. Edge, author of House of Smoke: A Southern Goes Searching for Home, writes and hosts the Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth on the SEC Network, ESPN, Disney, and Hulu. Edge also writes a restaurant column for Garden & Gun. His 2017 book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South was named one of the best books of the year by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Edge serves the University of Mississippi as a teacher, writer-in-residence, and director of the Mississippi Lab. And he serves the University of Georgia as a mentor in their low-residency MFA program in narrative nonfiction. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, the artist Blair Hobbs.
Shannon Ferguson is a guitarist and producer known for his celebrated guitar work with New York City’s indie rock band Longwave. Ferguson’s career launched in the early 2000s with several releases on RCA Records and multiple world tours. Ferguson has also scored for film, television, and a wide array of multimedia projects.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/oxford/a-conversation-with-nic-brown-john-t-edge-for-violent-femmes-proud-larrys/200030054902930
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art, literary-art, workshops, live-music
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 11

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Oxford
- **state**: MS
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 211 S Lamar Blvd, Oxford, MS, United States, Mississippi 38655
- **lat**: 34.36571
- **long**: -89.51877
- **full address**: 211 S Lamar Blvd, Oxford, MS, United States, Mississippi 38655

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- **Q**: When and where is A Conversation with Nic Brown + John T. Edge for Violent Femmes @ Proud Larry's being held?
  - **A:** A Conversation with Nic Brown + John T. Edge for Violent Femmes @ Proud Larry's takes place on Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Tue, 19 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm at 211 S Lamar Blvd, Oxford, MS, United States, Mississippi 38655.
- **Q**: Who is organizing A Conversation with Nic Brown + John T. Edge for Violent Femmes @ Proud Larry's?
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  - **A:** A Conversation with Nic Brown + John T. Edge for Violent Femmes @ Proud Larry's is ideal for music lovers, fans of all genres, and anyone who wants to celebrate the power of music - from intimate gigs and live sessions to festivals and cultural performances. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Oxford, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If A Conversation with Nic Brown + John T. Edge for Violent Femmes @ Proud Larry's sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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