First thing you hear about Richard Price is that he writes great dialogue…a great ear for dialogue. He does. But, as James Wood wrote in The New Yorker recently, “one would have to get very drunk or ride on a magic bus to hear the kinds of anarchic metaphor, wild figuration, mashed slang, and frequent […]
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Tough talk
Thursday, August 21st, 2008The Lower East Side is haunted…
Thursday, August 21st, 2008After a tough-guy screenplay of a prologue–cops in fake cabs, dumb bad guys doing dumb things–Lush Life kicks off with this: “At ten in the morning, Eric Cash, thirty-five, stepped out of his Stanton Street walk-up, lit a cigarette, and headed off to work. When he had first moved down here eight years ago, he […]
Lush Life….by Richard Price
Thursday, August 21st, 2008First, let’s talk about the cover. I know it’s hard to see with the small pic below. A bunch of downtown hipsters crowded, lined up outside some upscale, nicely lit, happening joint in New York City. Downtown—could be SoHo, Tribeca, Gramercy, Union Square. But it’s the Lower East Side, another outpost of the gentry, reestablishing a […]
