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Richard Price

In conversation with Michael Chabon

Tuesday, March 10, 2008 |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

American novelist and screenwriter Richard Price has been describing the urban struggles, victories and defeats for four decades. His 1992 novel, Clockers, short-listed for the Nation Book Critics Circle Award that year, was made into a film for which Price co-wrote the screenplay with director Spike Lee. Price's most recent novel, Lush Life, returns to his old haunts - the Lower East Side of New York. Price's childhood in Bronx public housing has long colored his fiction. At 24, Price published his first novel, The Wanderers, which followed a group of young men caught up in gang culture of 1963 New York. In a review of Lush Life for The New York Review of Books, Michael Chabon states that "no American writer has ever written with such consistent power as Price on the subject of shame, of the failure of good intentions, of life as lived in the gap between Intention and Act." Price captures that moment of indecision in his screen writing, to great critical acclaim in his work on the HBO series The Wire, a show steeped in the street-level stories of cops, politicians, schools and drug economy. He also wrote the screenplay for the film Sea of Love, starring Al Pacino and based on Price's novel of the same name. For his script for The Color of Money, Price was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay. Price's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Playboy and Esquire.

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