"Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" A memoir from South Shore author

[Bombtrack]

Nick Flynn, is being turned into a movie, directed by Paul Weitz (About a Boy, In Good Company).

here's Nicks wikipedia entry

Nick Flynn (born 1960) is an American writer and poet. He was born and grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, south of Boston. His parents divorced when he was young and his mother committed suicide when he was 22. He drifted through several jobs before starting work at a homeless shelter in Boston. It was there at age 27 that he met his estranged, homeless father for the first time. Nick Flynn earned an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University.

Flynn's works have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Fence, The New York Times, and The Paris Review. He has written two collections of poetry: Blind Huber and Some Ether. He also authored A Note Slipped Under the Door with Shirley McPhillips. His poem, "Bag of Mice", won the "Discovery"/The Nation Award in 1999 leading to the publication of his first book of poems, Some Ether. His first book of poems also won the inaugural PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. "Bag of Mice" deals with his mother's suicide. In 2001, he won the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship.

Most recently he wrote Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, an account of his tumultuous early life and relationship with his father.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Flynn

here's the IMDB listing for the movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455323/

here's a link where you can listen to NPR interviews with the author

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/08/27_kerre_flynn/

Has anyone read it? I'm picking it up today.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. I read it

It was disappointing. Tedious to the point of making me want to doze off. It was such a relentlessly angry book, it wore me down. It possibly would have made a great (long) short story, or just plain narrative. But, it was blistering and denunciatory, without one shred of redemption even possible for anyone, and, in the end, I closed it and decided I had wasted my time reading it.

I hope you have a completely different experience. I hope you love it.

[pmegan]

2. Local (to me)

Interesting... I've heard of this book but I never knew that he was from Scituate (2 towns over from me). It sounded like an interesting book, if a little downbeat.