![]() An earlier memoir of Flynn’s, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, is being adapted as a film, and Flynn spends time on the set. This is my favorite of Nick Flynn’s memoirs. ![]() Wickersham’s index structure also allows room for the reader-breathing room, if you will-white space in which the reader can enter the story, and not be ovewhelmed by it. Anne Sexton once wrote that pain engraves a deeper memory, and yet when it comes to attempting to write memoir about something as shocking and painful as a parent’s suicide, a challenge, I imagine, would be that the vastness and shapelessness of such an event makes it nearly impossible to grasp, much less to articulate, even in time. It’s the containment-the indexing-that so beautifully allows for such painful internal material to be ordered and made into literature. ![]()
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