Nick Flynn

discusses

The Reenactments:
A Memoir

in conversation with TY BURR

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This event includes a book signing

This event will be followed by a film screening. Please see information below.

Date

Jan
9
Wednesday
January 9, 2013
7:00 PM ET

Location

Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-winning poet and memoirist NICK FLYNN for a discussion of his new memoir, The Reenactments. Mr. Flynn will be joined in conversation by Boston Globe film critic and author of Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame, TY BURR.

For Nick Flynn, that game we all play—the who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-of-your-life game—has been resolved. The Reenactments chronicles the surreal experience of being on set during the making of the film Being Flynn, from his best-selling memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, and watching the central events of his life reenacted: his father's long run of homelessness and his mother's suicide. Flynn tells the story of Robert De Niro's first meeting with his real father in Boston and of watching Julianne Moore attempt to throw herself into the sea. The result is a mesmerizingly sharp-edged and kaleidoscopic literary tour de force as well as a compelling argument about consciousness, representation, and grief.

The discussion will be followed by a screening of Being Flynn. Tickets for the film screening are sold separately and available through the Brattle.

A limited number of combo tickets are available, and discounted tickets will be available for purchase the night for event ticket holders.

Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn

Nick Flynn is the award-winning author of Some Ether, Blind Huber, The Ticking is the Bomb and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award. He divides his time between Texas, where he teaches at the University of Houston, and Brooklyn, New York.

Ty Burr
Ty Burr

Ty Burr

Ty Burr has been a film critic at The Boston Globe since 2002. Prior to that he wrote about movies for Entertainment Weekly, and he began his career as an in-house movie analyst for HBO. His previous books include The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together. He lives, writes, and teaches in the greater Boston area.

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Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 10 minutes

As you exit the station, cross Mass. Ave. and proceed along Brattle St. Follow Brattle St. as it curves to the right in Brattle Square (follow the sidewalk on the right side of the street). The Brattle will be on the left-hand side of the street. The building is shared with Algiers Cafe and Alden & Harlow Restaurant, and the theatre entrance is on the left side of the building—look for the sidewalk poster case and marquee.

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