Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn

Pulls the plastic off one, then the other, lifts each to My daughter pushes herīowl away, picks two packets of jelly from the basket, Round & round, a pitcher throws a baseball, a woman Tvs are screwed into the wall above us-a car goes Until I stop her she will keep on pouring. Pitcher of milk, she pours nearly all of it into her bowl, My daughter orders corn flakes, they come with a Slept-a sinkhole opened below his bed-not even Yesterday a man was sucked into the earth as he Paradise is cloudless, they say, impossible to know. On the lobby tv a woman onceĪpparently enormous holds her old jeans up to herīody & smiles. Hands us the key to room three one three-homeįor a week or so. Is this our final destination? At the hotel a man Is your final destination, the air murmurs, ifĪ stranger or anyone you do not know well offers youĪnything. Is delayed, this airport another nowhere. They say you are made of clouds, they say youĪre made of feathers, they say you are everywhere

His long-time partner is actress Lili Taylor, with whom he shares a home in New York. Flynn earned an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University, and teaches part-time at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program. He drifted through several jobs before starting work at a homeless shelter in Boston, where at age twenty-seven, he met his estranged, homeless father for the first time. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother committed suicide when he was 22. He was born and grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, south of Boston. Further honors include a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2001 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and the 1999 Discovery/The Nation Award for his poem, Bag of Mice, about his mother's suicide.įlynn's works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. He has published two collections of poetry: Blind Huber, and Some Ether, which won the inaugural PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His most recent book is a memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, (W.W.

His most recent publication is a play, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins (Faber & Faber, 2008). Nick Flynn (born 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet.

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn