Nick Flynn met his father when he was working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this stranger father, a self-proclaimed poet and con man doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" tells the story of the[...]
Already one of the most talked-about and eagerly anticipated literary debuts in the USA this year, this is a novel comparable to recent American memoir successes like 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius', 'A Million Little Pieces' and 'The Liar's Club'.[...]
Winner of a "Discovery"/"The Nation Award
Winner of the 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
"Some Ether is one of the more remarkable debut collections of poetry to appear in America in recent memory. As Mark Doty has noted, "these poems are more than testimony; in lyrics of ringing cla[...]
Now in paperback, the latest poetry by Nick Flynn, author of "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" and "The Ticking Is the Bomb""The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands" begins as a meditation on love and the body but soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memori[...]