Go read Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, one of my favorite books ever, I have all these FEELINGS about it - as a winter read, it is difficult, wrenching, and heartbreakingly beautiful - and then go read firstpersonsingular’s great interview with Nick Flynn on The Rumpus.

I’m really curious about what will happen with the imminent film version, set to star Paul Dano* (who has been too wussy in too many crappy indies like the terrible Gigantic and the awful The Extra Man, although he can go head to head with Great Actors, so we will see, and I wish it could be an Andrew Garfield, or probably some young UK/Australian actor, since, frankly, they seem like men as opposed to Jesse Eisenberg/Dano/or that Canadian wimp Michael Cera) and Robert DeNiro. Having watched The Wire Season 5 this weekend, I’d be interested in what a David Simon would do with the source material, but Paul Weitz is doing it. We will see! I wonder where it’s going to be filmed; in particular, the Boston in the book is not the Boston of today, I find. But get out of the greater Boston area and there are so many dilapidated mill towns with empty, falling down buildings that could be a fair approximation.

(I haven’t seen this cover of the book and I love it. UK version, maybe? It is so much better than the US cover, which looks like bad 70s art. The cover for his new book of poetry is so creepy and gorgeous, and I first encountered that photo on a Shearwater album about birds. Because every Shearwater album is about birds.)

*Dano is a total upgrade from Casey Affleck, who - ever since I’m Still Here - I feel visceral hate towards, even if there’s just a photo of him in a magazine.