Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir

by Nick Flynn, Andre Dubus III (Introduction)

Overview

"Clear-eyed, inventive, and astonishingly honest." —Elissa Schappel, Vanity Fair

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781324105374
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/18/2025
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Andre Dubus III is the author of Such Kindness and eight other books, including the bestsellers Townie, a memoir; and House of Sand and Fog, a National Book Award Finalist in Fiction and an Oprah’s Book Club selection. He lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

"Flynn's authentic voice... holds us rapt, keeping both the tragic and the redemptive possibilities open."

Village Voice - Darren Reidy

"[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."

Boston Globe - Kate Bolick

"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."

Michael Mewshaw

"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."

GQ - Devin Friedman

"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."

Vendela Vida

"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."

Entertainment Weekly - Troy Patterson

"A remarkable feat: a clear-eyed, inventive, and astonishingly honest guided tour of hell."

Vanity Fair - Elissa Schappel

"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."

Los Angeles Times Book Review - Thomas Curwen