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Film screening and reading with Barry Gifford in NYC

May26 at Metrograph in New York, NY

Screenings of the films The Strange One and Pickup on South Street, both of which Gifford has written about in Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir. Copies of Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, The Roy Stories and others will be on sale at the event.

The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages, Barry Gifford writes distinctly American stories for readers around the globe. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career, Gifford’s fiction—part-noir, part-picaresque, always entertaining—is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

May26, 1.30pm

No.7 Ludlow Street
New York, NY 10002 United States