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“Angel of Strawberry, Angel of Grape, your purple body
not only fills these coffins
but takes the shape of the coffin—emptiness
made whole…”
Nick Flynn is a writer, playwright, poet and professor in the creative writing program at the University of Houston, where he teaches each spring. His most recent publication, The Reenactments, chronicles Flynn’s experience during the making of Being Flynn, a film based on his acclaimed 2004 memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. Flynn is also the author of three collections of poetry, including Some Ether, which won the inaugural PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry in 1999 and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Additionally, his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s This American Life, and The New York Times Book Review.
Selected Fiction
“The crimson pounced him again and again. Blood flecked the sand, darker than the crimson, more red than the tobacco spit soaking into sand. My black and white stumbled, flapped its wings, danced at the edge of the arena.”
“My jokes spurred laughs, but the sounds quickly faded back into pick-up lines and chatter. If this scene had occurred earlier in my career, I would’ve taken it as a direct judgment of my material. But by this point I knew how to distinguish a bad set from a bad room.”
Writers
“Gentleness when she was quiet and roughness when she spoke—I kept turning these two opposites around until I pictured a snowy landscape, the softly falling snow. Such a gentle death had never happened on the fields I had excavated.”
Miha Mazzini is an author, screenwriter and movie director originally from Slovenia. He is the author of twenty-seven books published in nine languages, and his stories can be found in more than a dozen anthologies in seven languages, including the Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology, Volume 4 and Pushcart Prize XXXVI. His Cartier Project was the all-time best-selling novel in Yugoslavia and won the 1987 Best Novel of the Year award from both the pro-government and opposition newspapers. Two of his screenplays have been produced as feature films, and he has written and directed five short films.
