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An Evening With Willy Vlautin

Renowned author and musician Willy Vlautin celebrates the launch of his new book 'The Horse' with a reading, Q&A and solo performance of songs at CCA Glasgow on Wednesday 15th May!

An Evening With Willy Vlautin

About An Evening With Willy Vlautin

Featuring a reading, Q&A and a solo performance of songs inspired by writing The Horse - with a few Delines and Richmond Fontaine songs thrown in!

WILLY VLAUTIN has published six previous novels: The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete, The Free, Don’t Skip Out on Me and The Night Always Comes. The Motel Life and Lean on Pete were turned into feature films, released in 2012 and 2017 respectively. The former starred Kris Kristofferson and Emile Hirsch and the latter, starred Charlie Plummer, Chloe Sevigny and Steve Buscemi, and was adapted and directed by Andrew Haigh.

Vlautin lives outside of Portland, Oregon and is the founding member of the bands Richmond Fontaine and The Delines.

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