By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story discusses how author Nick Flynn harnessed the power of Facebook to promote his latest book, The Ticking is the Bomb. What’s unusual is that Flynn’s book, a memoir, ranges over topics from fatherhood to the torture at Abu Ghraib. Initially reluctant, he was compelled to start social networking after someone created a fan page …
Author Nick Flynn Finds an Unlikely Friend in Facebook
By Sharon Glassman How do you go out into the world to promote a book about “torture and babies?” For Nick Flynn, author of the recently published memoir The Ticking is the Bomb (WW Norton), the answer mirrors the author’s way of working. The PEN Award-winning author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City writes memoirs that limn personal tragedy in poetic prose. …