Another Bullshit Night in Suck City is a memoir by playwright and poet Nick Flynn, describing Flynn's reunion with his estranged father, Jonathan, an alcoholic resident of the homeless shelter where Nick was a social worker in the late s. The title refers to Jonathan's description of homeless life in Boston. It was published by W. W. Norton in September Nick Flynn is an American poet, memoirist, and playwright. His most famous book is a memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. He has published two collections of poetry: Blind Huber, and Some Ether, which won the inaugural PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and was a . This memoir is Nick Flynn's story but it is also the story of his father and of others like his father. Flynn renders well his mixed emotions toward this parent--guilt, disgust, anger, shame, curiosity, and loyalty; and his despair and mental collapse after his young mother committed suicide.
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn pp, Faber, £ Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, published in , was a revelatory account of the 40m Americans who subsist below. 'A stunningly beautiful new memoir a near-perfect work of literature.' —Stephen Elliot, San Francisco Chronicle, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, A Memoir, Nick Flynn, Flynn's wayward father, a self-styled writer and ex-con, describes his life on Boston's streets as "another bullshit night in Suck City": he hangs out in ATM lobbies, stuffs his coat with.
Nick Flynn is the author of This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire and three previous memoirs, including the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award–winning Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and four volumes of poetry. A professor on the creative writing faculty at the University of Houston, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this mystery father - self-proclaimed poet (and greatest American novelist since Mark Twain), descendant of the Romanov dynasty. Nick Flynn is the award-winning author of Some Ether, Blind Huber, The Ticking is the Bomb and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He divides his time between Texas, where he teaches at the University of Houston, and Brooklyn, New York.
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