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Jul 28, 2007 · He is perhaps most well known for his Sailor and Lula series, from which Wild at Heart was adapted to a movie by David Lynch. Gifford also wrote the screenplay Lynch’s Lost Highway. The name Barry Gifford was suggested to me as a potential interviewee by someone at Dollyhead Books.
Jun 22, 2003 · Barry Gifford is both a cult writer and a great one. In Europe, where his cult and his prose are not in conflict, he is read as an American original who meets his reader's expectations of America's violent pioneering spirit. Eventually, he will be read the same way here.
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 15, 2011 · Probably best known for his novel Wild At Heart, which was the basis for David Lynch’s Cannes-winning film of the same name, Gifford has written a slew of critically lauded novels, nonfiction, poetry and screenplays.
Mar 31, 2008 · Gifford's output shifts frequently between different subjects and different types of writing. There are novels, biographies , essays on film, screenplays, poetry and even librettos for operas.
Barry Gifford in conversation with Noel King. Berkeley, California, 27 June 2007. You can read three poems and a play by Barry Gifford in this issue of Jacket. paragraph 1. Noel King: You have been involved in the ongoing Francis Coppola On the Road film project. I read that you had suggested Gus Van Sant as a possible director.
Aug 24, 2020 · Norm: What do you consider to be your greatest success (or successes) so far in your career? Barry: My greatest success has been staying alive + getting my work done. Commercially speaking, some of my books+movies have done well, others less well.
