Nick Flynn

Nick performed on our virtual stage for Seriously Entertaining on September 22, 2020, speaking on the evening’s theme, “All Good Things.” Watch it below.

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.

In his own words: “Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.”

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