Professional Writers Series: Brian Doyle, ''Doyle's Book of Unwritten Rules''

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Brian Doyle is an award-winning novelist, essayist and editor of the University of Portland's Portland Magazine, annually ranked among the 10 best university magazines in America. His recent novel, ''Mink River,'' has been compared to Dylan Thomas's ''Under Milk Wood'' and Sherwood Anderson's ''Winesburg, Ohio.'' His latest work ''Grace Notes,'' engages the spirit in 37 essays. Doyle's other books include ''Saints Passionate & Peculiar, Credo,'' and ''Two Voices,'' winner of a Christopher Award and a Catholic Press Association Book Award. The author's essays have appeared in The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, Orion, Commonweal and Harper's, among other periodicals.