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Ben Nickol in Conversation with Margaret Malone
April 6, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
FreeWe are thrilled to welcome novelist Ben Nickol in conversation with Margaret Malone, discussing his newly published novel, The Sea Lanterns
The book tells the story of Scott Darrow, marooned as athletic director at a backwater college and hungry for more, plotting his ascent to a better job at a better school. Darrow has the talent, charm, and Machiavellian nerve to go far, but when he hires a famous coach to run his basketball program, the coach proves to be unstable and possibly insane.Now, to escape professional oblivion, Darrow must maneuver and manipulate this coach, and manage the town’s intensifying suspicions.
Ben Nickol is also the author of Sun River: Stories, which was named a Quivering Pen Best Book of 2019. His stories and essays have also appeared widely, in venues such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, CutBank, and elsewhere. Originally from Idaho, Nickol returned to the Northwest in 2021 after teaching for several years in the M.F.A. program at Wichita State University.
Margaret Malone’s story collection People Like You was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Hemingway Award and Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, The Rumpus, The Missouri Review, Paper Darts, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, where she is a co-host of the artist and literary gathering SHARE.