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Nick Flynn

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

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.

Awards

Winner — PEN/Martha Albrand Award, 2005

Books by Nick Flynn

  • Being Flynn

    Nick Flynn

    Movie Tie In Edition, Paperback, 2012

    This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.
  • Being Flynn

    Nick Flynn

    Movie Tie In Edition, E Book, 2012

    This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.
  • Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir

    Nick Flynn

    Paperback, 2005

    "Clear-eyed, inventive, and astonishingly honest." —Elissa Schappel, Vanity Fair
  • The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir

    Nick Flynn

    Paperback, 2011

    "A beautiful, intelligent book that renders pain both ordinary and extraordinary into art."—Susanna Sonnenberg, San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Reenactments: A Memoir

    Nick Flynn

    Paperback, 2013

    A literary tour de force about the making of a film and representation from a master of the memoir form.
  • This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire: A Memoir

    Nick Flynn

    Hardback, 2020

    A searing memoir from critically acclaimed author Nick Flynn, on how childhood spills into parenthood.
  • The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir

    Nick Flynn

    E Book, 2011

    "A beautiful, intelligent book that renders pain both ordinary and extraordinary into art."—Susanna Sonnenberg, San Francisco Chronicle
  • Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir

    Nick Flynn

    E Book, 2010

    "Clear-eyed, inventive, and astonishingly honest." —Elissa Schappel, Vanity Fair
  • The Reenactments: A Memoir

    Nick Flynn

    E Book, 2012

    A literary tour de force about the making of a film and representation from a master of the memoir form.
  • This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire: A Memoir

    Nick Flynn

    E Book, 2020

    A searing memoir on how childhood spills into parenthood from the critically acclaimed author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City.