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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir
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"A stunningly beautiful new memoir . . . a near-perfect work of literature." —Stephen Elliot, San Francisco Chronicle


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 trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other.
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Nick Flynn. (2010). Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir. W. W. Norton & Company.

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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 trajectory that led Nick and his father onto the streets, into that shelter, and finally to each other.
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      • source: Vendela Vida;New York Times Book Review
      • content: Flynn has written a potent, distinctive autobiography.... Flynn's talents are considerable—he has a compelling voice and wry sense of humor, especially about himself.
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      • source: Michael Mewshaw;Washington Post
      • content: The prose swirls in graceful arcs that frequently rise to the level of poetry, leavened by mordant humor.... It's a powerful tale, stylishly told.
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      • source: Devin Friedman;GQ
      • content: In a perverse act of divine intervention, a life worth writing about was bestowed on a man actually able to write—in startling, beautiful, unsentimental prose.... It is crammed with beauty and wisdom, and everyone will love it.
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      • source: Elissa Schappel;Vanity Fair
      • content: A remarkable feat: a clear-eyed, inventive, and astonishingly honest guided tour of hell.
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      • source: Darren Reidy;Village Voice
      • content: Flynn's authentic voice... holds us rapt, keeping both the tragic and the redemptive possibilities open.
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      • source: Thomas Curwen;Los Angeles Times Book Review
      • content: Told with energy, critical reflection and sensitivity, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City is less a memoir than a study of one of America's darker conundrums: homelessness.
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      • source: Kate Bolick;Boston Globe
      • content: [Flynn's] story is eerie testimony to the potent influence of an absent parent. But Nick, a poet, is too subtle a writer to say so outright, and instead lets us draw our own conclusions with a delicate, poetic logic.
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      • source: Troy Patterson;Entertainment Weekly
      • content: Unlike the pity parties that too many memoirs have become, Night has no maudlin gestures, no 'inspirational' tones, no hysterics; it stares down emptiness with clear, dry eyes.
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        June 21, 2004
        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 newspaper and is often "still drunk from the night before." This biting memoir describes the years poet Flynn (Some Ether
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        Forecast:
        Norton has high hopes for this memoir; they promoted it heavily at BEA and have planned an author tour.

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