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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., October 28, 2014—Author Nick Flynn will visit Williams College on Friday, Nov. 7, to present a reading of his new poetry and nonfiction. This event will take place at 7 p.m. at the Log on Spring Street. It is free and open to the public.
Flynn is a writer, playwright, and poet whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times Book Review and on National Public Radio’s This American Life. A professor in the creative writing program at the University of Houston, Flynn received an M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University.
His most recent publication, The Reenactments, is the final installment in his trilogy of memoirs. It details his experience during the making of Being Flynn, a 2012 film based on his memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Additionally, Flynn is the author of three collections of poetry, including Some Ether, the 1999 winner of the Joyce Award for Poetry, awarded by the PEN American Center.
This event is sponsored by the Department of English.
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Published October 28, 2014
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