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   Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) [1] 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 ...

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   Barry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time, he’s been writing short stories, his “Roy stories,” that show America from a different vantage point, a certain mix of innocence and worldliness.

4. www.latimes.com › books › la-ca-jc-barry-giffordBarry Gifford's lifetime of outsiders - Los Angeles Times

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   Mar 16, 2018 · Barry Gifford has spent a lifetime writing stories about outsiders, particularly the hard-living petty thieves Sailor and Lula, the basis for the David Lynch film “Wild at Heart.”

5. www.beatsville.net › 2021 › 06BARRY GIFFORD ON THE HISTORY OF NOIR AND BLACK LIZARD

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   Jun 29, 2021 · At the time of his sudden death in 1985, he was preparing for another comeback, which may have resulted in some long-overdue critical and popular acclaim.

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   Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) [1] 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.

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   Collected here for the first time, the Roy stories of Barry Gifford chronicle his personal history of a time—roughly, the late 1940s through the early 1960s—and a place—the southern and mid-western United States (Chicago, Illinois, and Key West and Miami, Florida, in particular).

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   Who is Barry Gifford?

   • 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.

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   Was Barry Gifford an American original?

   • Barry Gifford is an American Original. His work evokes many sensibilities, from the Beats to noir to social realism to postmodernism to cinematic. It stirs up ghosts and invokes the future. For those who haven’t had the pleasure or for old friends catching up: Read this book.

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   Where did Barry Gifford grow up?

   • Gifford's father was in organized crime, and he spent his childhood largely in Chicago and New Orleans living in hotels. His childhood, as recounted in his long-running series of autobiographical tales known collectively as the Roy stories, is explored in the 2020 documentary Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago.

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   What do you like most about Barry Gifford?

   • Barry Gifford is an American Original whose work evokes many sensibilities, from the Beats to noir to social realism to postmodernism to cinematic. One admirer states, "I love Do the Blind Dream?—a wonderful and delightful piece that tastes of Buñuel and Cocteau.

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   How many short stories does Barry Gifford write?

   • Barry Gifford's first book for young adults contains forty-one short stories. At the center of it all is a boy learning to navigate the compromises, disillusionments and regrets that come with the territory of living. Mixing memoir and invention, these stories bring a city—and a boy's growing consciousness—to vivid, unflinching life.

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   What does Barry Gifford say in his new poetry collection?

   • Barry Gifford expresses in his new poetry collection that "Here I am wasting time again / writing poems to keep myself company"—doing what he has always done, surprising readers in kaleidoscopic prisms of color, turning every breath into a story, and himself into his most colorful character. (The passage continues with 'past the cottage and into the big house.')

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9. www.empireonline.com › people › barry-giffordBarry Gifford News & Biography - Empire

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   Apr 18, 2012 · Birthday: 17 Oct 1946. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American...