Posts tagged “barry gifford”
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Premium Editions at Seven Stories Press
August 5, 2009
Seven Stories Press is now offering first editions, signed copies, and other premium editions of many of our most popular and beloved books, including God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, Dark Alliance, A Young People’s History of the United States, and…
Tags: barry gifford, dark alliance, gary webb, god bless you dr kevorkian, howard zinn, kurt vonnegut, lee stringer, man without a country, rare books
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Barry Gifford and Rue 89 talk Imagination of the Heart and Sailor & Lula
July 20, 2009
Rue 89: Throughout this saga, you have a very strange view of time—should one see in this a relationship to David Lynch’s artistic work, which is also very irrational? You’ve been a screenwriter for his movies.
Gifford: David Lynch’s work is David’s. Mine is mine.
Any relationship or influence between one and the other?
I see our collaborations as compatible inspirations.
Has the cinema changed your literary work?
No. My writing has changed the cinema. —Translated from the interview at Rue 89
Tags: articles, barry gifford, france, imagination of the heart, interviews, rue 89, sailor & lula
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Barry Gifford profiled in the Contra Costa Times
June 19, 2009
Barry Gifford, an author who needs no introduction, recently sat down with Dave Newhouse to discuss writing, strange career paths, and the perks of being “an author who’s like his characters.”
[Gifford] knows famous writers who “hate to write, but I’ve never thought of writing as a job. I still kind of sneak up on it, and it’s always kind of amazing to me to think I was able to do this.”
Tags: Authors, barry gifford, contra costa times, imagination of the heart, interviews, memories from a sinking ship
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Barry Gifford at City Lights
June 10, 2009
June 10, 7pm, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94133.
Tags: barry gifford, city lights, imagination of the heart, readings, san francisco
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Barry Gifford + Wild at Heart screening at The Bushwick Starr
June 3, 2009
Barry Gifford will be reading from his newest work, Imagination of the Heart, at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn. The reading will be followed by a screening of David Lynch’s adaptation of Gifford’s novel Wild at Heart. June 3rd, 7:30p,…
Tags: Authors, barry gifford, brooklyn, bushwick starr, films, imagination of the heart, new york city, readings, wild at heart
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Memories from a Sinking Ship, read by Barry Gifford
May 29, 2009
Read by Barry Gifford and produced by Barry Gifford and Oscar Bucher, the audiobook version of Barry Gifford’s Memories from a Sinking Ship— to be released in paperback in June 2009 and currently available in hardcover—is not to be missed. Check out a sample track below:
For more information on the audiobook, or to buy a copy, take a look at Barry Gifford’s website. You can also pick up a physical copy of the CD at Amazon.
Tags: audio, audiobook, barry gifford, memories from a sinking ship, oscar bucher, readings
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Barry Gifford at Diesel Books
May 20, 2009
May 20, DIESEL: A Bookstore, Brentwood Country Mart, 225 26th St., Santa Monica, CA 90402.
Tags: Authors, barry gifford, diesel books, imagination of the heart, santa monica
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Barry Gifford at Vroman’s
May 19, 2009
May 19, 7pm, Vroman’s, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91101.
Tags: Authors, barry gifford, imagination of the heart, q&a, vroman's book store
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Barry Gifford at Pegasus Books
May 14, 2009
May 14, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704.
Tags: Authors, barry gifford, imagination of the heart, pegasus books, readings
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The LA Times on the legacy of Nelson Algren
April 28, 2009
Art Shay… took the most iconic shots of the author, black-and-whites of him playing poker or peering through barroom windows, pictures so gritty you can almost feel the dirt rise off the frame. These photos, as much as anything, are responsible for Algren’s image as “the poet of the Chicago slums,” yet they also cast him in amber: a midcentury figure, smoking a cigar, eyebrows raised behind round glasses, turning over another card. Sixty years after winning the first National Book Award, for his 1949 novel of addiction, “The Man With the Golden Arm,” Algren has become vestigial enough that discussions of a national celebration were scaled back after, as [executive director of the National Book Foundation Harold] Augenbraum notes in an e-mail, “we concluded that though his writing continued to resonate, the number of his readers and his currency among the general reading public had diminished.”
So what, exactly, is Algren’s legacy? That’s the question the Steppenwolf event means to raise. —David Ulin at the LA Times
Tags: art shay, articles, barry gifford, Dan Simon, david ulin, don delillo, man with the golden arm, nelson algren, nelson algren live, neon wilderness, never come morning, russell banks, steppenwolf
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Photos from Nelson Algren Live
April 16, 2009
Tags: barry gifford, chicago, Dan Simon, don delillo, entrapment, man with the golden arm, martha lavey, nelson algren, nelson algren live, readings, steppenwolf theatre, willem dafoe
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Nelson Algren Live reviewed in the Chicago Tribune
April 8, 2009
The ubertext of “Nelson Algren Live,” a literary evening that had the great Don DeLillo happy merely to read little bits of narration, and featured the truly delicious casting of Martha Lavey as Simone de Beauvoir? Algren spent a life writing about others and kept this hitherto-unpublished story hidden, because Blackie Cavanaugh, a gaping, emotional, closed, taciturn wound, was far too much like himself.
Tags: barry gifford, chicago, chicago tribune, Dan Simon, don delillo, entrapment, martha lavey, nelson algren, nelson algren live, reviews, steppenwolf theatre, willem dafoe
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Nelson Algren Live: 100th Birthday Celebration at the Steppenwolf Theatre
April 6, 2009
April 6 at 7:00 PM, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60614. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased from the Steppenwolf Theatre web site, or by calling the box office at 312-335-1650.
Nelson Algren Live will feature readings from…
Tags: art shay, Authors, barry gifford, Dan Simon, entrapment, nelson algren, readings, russell banks, steppenwolf theatre
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Willem Dafoe at Nelson Algren Live
April 1, 2009
What’s the most exciting event taking place in Chicago on April 6th? According to Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune, Barbara Vitello of the Daily Herald, and Rob Christopher of the Chicagoist, there’s only one answer: Nelson Algren Live at the Steppenwolf Theatre. And, as Chris Jones mentions, Willem Dafoe is now among the performers reading selections from Algren’s work, along with Seven Stories publisher Dan Simon and authors Barry Gifford, Don DeLillo and Russell Banks.
Tags: art shay, barry gifford, chicago, Dan Simon, don delillo, nelson algren, nelson algren live, readings, russell banks, steppenwolf, willem dafoe
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Barry Gifford at Barnes and Noble NYC
March 25, 2009
May 26, 7pm, Barnes and Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway at 82nd street, New York City.
Tags: barnes and noble nyc, barry gifford, imagination of, new york, readings
