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Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers. Gifford writes nonfiction, poetry, and is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two star-crossed protagonists on a perpetual ...
Nov 9, 2021 · American writer Barry Gifford in Paris, France, in 2010. Gifford was born and grew up in the Seneca Hotel in Streeterville. His name was Barry Stein and his mother was a former Texas beauty queen ...
Mar 16, 2018 · The first thing you see when entering Barry Gifford’s writing studio in West Berkeley is the portrait of Jack Kerouac. ... Even before his father’s death from an illness when Gifford was 12 ...
Start the evening at 6 pm with cocktails at Canessa Gallery, and settle in for a night with the likes of Gifford’s Kerouac, Kafka, O’Connor, Burroughs, Melville, and Gide. Canessa Gallery is located at 708 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. The landmark building is a diminutive old-brick gem and one of downtown San Francisco’s last links ...
Nov 8, 2021 · “Picasso said that ‘art is a lie that helps us see the truth,’ and Barry’s stories function in the same way about Chicago in the 1950s,” director Rob Christopher told me during our 2019 conversation about his extraordinary film, “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago.” “He uses his memories to create fictionalized versions of that time period.
A Barry Gifford Reader. “Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels,” declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen novels and novellas. Nine, including Wild at Heart and Night People, are restored to original sequence.
The first of the series, Wild at Heart, was adapted by director David Lynch for the 1990 film of the same title. Gifford went on to write the screenplay for Lost Highway with Lynch. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction. Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir ...
