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Oct 23, 2021 · Gifford reflects on the multi-layered worlds in which he grew up, on his complicated and fascinating family life, and on the city itself, ‘some of it true, some of it not.’ His Roy stories are a fictional version of Gifford as a child. Des Barry reviews Barry Gifford's Roy's World.
Nov 1, 2021 · An interview with author Barry Gifford and actor Lili Taylor about their new film, Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago, directed by Rob Christopher.
Nov 9, 2021 · He is perhaps most famous for what are labeled his Sailor and Lula novels, a series that inspired filmmaker David Lynch’s “Wild At Heart,” the 1990 romantic crime film that Lynch wrote and...
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.”
Jan 25, 2015 · Born in Chicago, Barry Gifford grew up moving around frequently, often living in hotels in places the likes of Chicago, New Orleans, south Florida, Havana — and even downtown Jackson, where he...
Photographs and sketches from Gifford’s personal archive, along with stock images and footage, make up the bulk of the visuals of the documentary. These images are soundtracked by voice-overs that read from The Roy Stories, with the voices playing over an original jazz score from Jason Adasiewicz .
Dec 1, 2014 · Barry Gifford’s novel Wild at Heart turns twenty-five this year. It tells the story of Sailor and Lula, two young lovers on the lam, driving their ’75 Bonneville convertible toward a better life but finding the violent reality of America instead.
