HPL presents An Evening with Nick Flynn
Apr 21 2010 6:00 pm
Apr 21 2010 7:30 pm
Join the Houston Public Library for a visit from Nick Flynn, who will discuss and sign copies of his latest book The Ticking Is the Bomb.
In 2007, during the months before Nick Flynn's daughter's birth, his growing outrage and obsession with torture, exacerbated by the Abu Ghraib photographs, led him to Istanbul to meet some of the Iraqi men depicted in those photos. Haunted by a history of addiction, a relationship with his unsteady father, and a longing to connect with his mother who committed suicide, Flynn artfully interweaves in this memoir passages from his childhood, his relationships with women, and his growing obsession - a questioning of terror, torture, and the political crimes we can neither see nor understand in post-9/11 American life.
The time bomb of the title becomes an unlikely metaphor and vehicle for exploring the fears and joys of becoming a father. Here is a memoir of profound self-discovery - of being lost and found, of painful family memories and losses, of the need to run from love, and of the ability to embrace it again.
Nick Flynn’s first memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award in 2005. He is also the author of two books of poetry entitled Some Ether and Blind Huber. Each spring he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year in Brooklyn (and elsewhere).
Learn more on the Houston Public Library website.
Register for this Program
Location:
- Street:
- Central Library
- Additional:
- 500 McKinney
- City:
- Houston ,
- Province:
- Texas
- Postal Code:
- 77002
- Country:
- United States
