When: Friday, January 29
Where: Powell's City of Books on W. Burnside Portland, OR
What time: 7:30 PM
Event Information: For more information visit www.powells.com/events

The Ticking Is the Bomb (Norton) is a dazzling, searing, and inventive memoir from Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, that explores the challenges of becoming a father in the age of terror. "A striking collection of memories that will mystify, enlighten, trouble and amaze," proclaims Kirkus Reviews (starred review).

Nick Flynn’s “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City” (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France’s Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, “Some Ether” (Graywolf, 2000), and “Blind Huber" (Graywolf, 2002), 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.