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Nick Flynn: The Reenactments
Nick Flynn on the strange days on the set of Being Flynn, a film adapted from his personal memoir, and starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 28m ListenThe Reenactments (W.W. Norton & Co.) recounts author
Nick Flynn's strange days on the set of
Being Flynn. His personal memoir,
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, was adapted into a film starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano. The experience of watching De Niro and Julianne Moore playing his own parents became an occasion for Flynn to relive traumatic memories, and to reflect on the nature of consciousness, tragedy, poetry, and catharsis.
Banner image: Geordie Wood
