WILLY VLAUTIN
Monday, May 5 at 7:30 p.m.

Richmond Fontaine front man Willy Vlautin's first novel, Motel Life, won international acclaim last year, and also attention closer to home as one of The Oregonian's Top Ten Books from the Northwest. He's here tonight with his much-awaited follow-up, Northline (Harper Perennial), a novel in which a young woman trying to escape her skinhead boyfriend settles in Reno and lands a job as a waitress on the graveyard shift at the Cal Neva Top Deck Restaurant. "An unflinching look at people living on the edge in Vegas and Reno, Vlautin turns his frighteningly unsentimental eye on those drifting through life ... Vlautin's literary style either consciously or unconsciously echoes that of Hemingway ... Spare and strangely moving." – Kirkus Reviews.

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