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"If Nick Flynn’s Stay is a self-portrait, it is a self-portrait of our planet, of our contemporary consciousness in an undeniably wounded era. I think of it as an artist’s notebook, a prayer book, a monumental compendium of what it means to stay alive." –Mary RuefleWith
Stay, acclaimed poet, artist, and bestselling memoirist Nick Flynn presents a self-portrait via a constellation of topics that have circled his work. Ranging from the impact of suicide and homelessness to addiction, political engagement, and the vital power of artistic friendships,
Stay is a mixed-media retrospective that shows nothing is created in isolation.
Mirroring Flynn’s life, this work of visual and literary memoir is populated by examples of his collaborations since the 1980s with such luminaries as the photographers Amy Arbus and Catherine Opie, composer Guy Barash, actor Robert De Niro, cartoonist Josh Neufeld, author Sarah Sentilles, filmmaker Paul Weitz, and artists John Baldessari, Marilyn Minter, and Bill Shuck. In Flynn’s refusal to conform to narrative or the safety of his own perspective,
Stay grasps for an essential truth, an answer to what art, in the end, can and cannot reflect.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Flynn is the author of the books of poetry Blind Huber (2002), The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands (2011), and My Feelings (2015). He has also written several memoirs, including Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (2004), Being Flynn (2005), The Ticking is the Bomb (2010), and The Reenactments (2013); and the play Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins (2008). His book The Ticking Is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment (2010) addresses the Abu Ghraib scandal. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.
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Known for his bestselling memoirs and as an acclaimed poet, Nick Flynn in Stay presents a self-portrait via a constellation of topics that the author has circled-or have circled him-in his work: suicide, homelessness, addiction, political engagement, artistic friendships.
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Events in Houston (Moody Center for the Arts), New York (Center for Fiction), Boston (Boston Public Library)National Media Outreach: ARCs sent to major publications and newspapers including The Atlantic, Bookforum, Boston Globe, Buzzfeed, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Daily Beast, Harper's Magazine, Los Angeles Times, New Republic, New York Magazine, New York Review of Books, New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Paris Review, PBS, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Rumpus, Salon, SLATE, USA Today, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
