"Intense, lyrical, and moving"

Writer Nick Flynn's books of poetry, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, Some Ether, and My Feelings, have earned awards and critical acclaim, including one reviewer's report that "each word is a lit match." Flynn won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for memoir for his 2004 best-seller Another Bulls***t Night in Suck City, which the San Francisco Chronicle called "a near-perfect work of literature ... It is intense, lyrical, moving and ultimately enlightening" and "hurtles toward a conclusion both stunning and unexpected."

Flynn will read from his latest memoir and engage in a public conversation with English faculty members Susannah Mintz, Linda Hall, and Melora Wolff on Wednesday, March 8, at 8 p.m. in Davis Auditorium. The event, sponsored by the English Department, is free and open to the public.