Nick Flynn

This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire

Nick Flynn is an acclaimed memoirist, poet, and playwright. He has previously worked as a ship’s captain, an electrician, and a caseworker for homeless adults. His bibliography includes multiple award-winning memoirs and volumes of poetry, with other work appearing in publications including the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and NPR’s This American Life. Flynn is an awardee of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, PEN, and the Fine Arts Work Center, among others. His latest work is This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire, a memoir about how childhood spills into adulthood. Currently, he is a creative writing professor at the University of Houston and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Sunday, October 25, 2020

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Memoir: Secrets, Lies, and the Mysteries of Our Youth [pre-recorded]

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Secrets: almost every family has them. The three memoirists in this audio session will talk about the secrets and mysteries that haunt their lives. Helen Fremont, in The Escape Artist, explores the psychological fallout stemming from her parents’ refusal to acknowledge that they were survivors of the Holocaust. In The Book of Atlantis Black, poet Betsy Bonner delves into the mysterious and troubling facts surrounding her sister’s death in a blend of memoir and literary true crime. And poet and memoirist Nick Flynn skillfully and lyrically blends the secrets and mysteries of his early life with his own secrets in This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire. Journalist, writer, and founder of TheEditorial.com, Heidi Legg, delves into the truth of these memoirists’ stories about secrets, lies, and mysteries. Listen to the end for a special offer from the BBF and W.W. Norton!