667. Nick Flynn

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Nick Flynn is the guest. His new memoir, This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire, is available now from W.W. Norton & Co. It is the official August pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club. Flynn is the author of 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. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Launched in 2011. Books. Literature. Writing. Publishing. Authors. Screenwriters. Life. Death. Etc. Support the show on Patreon Merch www.otherppl.com @otherppl Instagram Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:47.1	Okay, everybody. Welcome to The Other People Show. My name is Brad Listy. I'm in Los Angeles. It's good to be with you. Welcome to the program. I have Nick Flynn as my guest today. He has a new memoir out from WW Norton & Company. It is called This is the Night Our House Will Catch fire. It's a memoir. And it is the official August, I'm sorry, it's the official, yeah, the official August pick of the
1:52.6	Nervous Breakdown Book Club. I forgot what month it is. That's where I am in the pandemic. I've just
1:57.7	lost all sense of time. But this is the night. Our House will catch fire.
2:02.6	The new memoir by Nick Flynn. We had a great conversation. That's coming up in a moment.
2:07.6	I want to say, again, how much I appreciate hearing from you guys. I have been getting a lot of
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