Glasrud Lecture and Reading features Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, will be presenting at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29 in ballroom section 200C in the Comstock Memorial Union.
Flynn’s memoir won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was short-listed for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into 13 languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, Some Ether and Blind Huber, for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s “This American Life,” and The New York Times Book Review. His film credits include “field poet” and artistic collaborator on the film Darwin’s Nightmare, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year elsewhere.
Flynn’s presentation is a Clarence Glasrud Lecture and Reading event, which celebrates the endowed lecture in “Soc” Glasrud’s name. Glasrud was an English professor and department chair at Minnesota State University Moorhead. The lecture was established in 1991 to bring speakers into the community to challenge the minds of people with the potential to improve society.