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Richard Price (born 1966 Reading) is a contemporary Scottish poet, novelist, and translator.
He grew up in Renfrewshire. He studied at Napier College, in journalism, and graduated the University of Strathclyde in English and Librarianship, with a joint first. He earned a PhD at University of Strathclyde.
He has worked with artists in sculpture, digital art, artist's books and music. His collaborators include Julie Johnstone, Simon Lewandowski, Karen Bleitz, Caroline Trettine and Ronald King. He is a lyricist and vocalist in the band Mirabeau.
His translations include the Guillaume Apollinaire poems in Eftirs / Afters (with translations of other French modernists by Donny O'Rourke, Au Quai, 1996) and the Louise Labé poems in Lute Variations (Rack Press, 2005).
In the 1990s he co-edited the poetry magazines Gairfish (with W. N. Herbert), Verse (with Robert Crawford, Henry Hart, David Kinloch, and others) and Southfields (with Raymond Friel). At this time he also ran the poetry publisher Vennel Press with Leona Medlin, publishing books by W.N. Herbert, Elizabeth James, David Kinloch, Peter McCarey, Medlin and Price themselves, and others. He was one of the group associated with Informationist poetry, coining the phrase. He introduced Informationist ideas in 1991 in the magazine Interference and, later, in his introduction to the anthology of Informationist poetry Contraflow on the Superhighway, co-edited with Herbert (Gairfish and Southfields, 1994). He currently edits the magazine Painted, spoken.
Richard Price, author of the new novel "The Whites," talks about what goes into the writing of his novels with Jeffrey Brown. Read the story: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/writing-process-behind-richard-prices-newest-book/
Richard Price needs no introduction. One of great novelists of our time to capture city life in all its beauty, complications and mess in such masterful best selling novels as The Wanderers, Clockers, and Lush Life. It’s hard to think of another writer today with such a command of language and the vernacular, evidenced in his brilliant television and movie work, a screenplay for The Color of Money and writing for The Wire. Price joined the Crime Fiction Academy for a Master Class in writing and a discussion of his latest work.
Subscribe for more videos like this: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=92Yplus Richard Price, one of America’s most gifted novelists, has always written brilliantly about cops, criminals and New York City. Now, writing as Harry Brandt, he is poised to win a huge following among all those who hunger for first-rate crime fiction. Join him and David Simon (“The Wire”) for a conversation about The Whites. Follow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/92ndStreetY Twitter: https://twitter.com/92Y Tumblr: http://92y.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://Instagram.com/92ndStreetY 92Y.org: http://92Y.org
Richard Price says nobody has ever produced good work on drugs.
Writing as Harry Brandt, Price has concocted a fast-paced literary thriller that pays homage as much to Melville as it does to today’s urban realities. Billy Graves has barely hung on in the NYPD since he accidentally shot a ten-year-old boy nearly twenty years ago. Stuck on the night shift, Graves suddenly relives the past when a slashing victim turns out to be a suspect in a case from the old days. Soon other elusive criminals—known by their frustrated pursuers as “whites,” after Moby Dick—begin to surface, just as a stalker terrorizes Graves’s family. Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics & Prose o...
By the time he was eleven, Price wanted to be a journalist, though he didn't quite know what that meant. Question: Did you always know you wanted to be a writer? Richard Price: Honestly, yes. I found sort of a graduation autograph book from 6th grade. I must've been 11 years old. You give it to all the kids in your class and it's a "Good luck, you loser." There's a page where you fill out your hopes and dreams and for some reason, I wrote down journalist. I didn't even know what a journalist was and I spelled it right. So yeah, I guess I did.No, I started writing in elementary school believe it or not. My grandfather was a factory worker but he also wrote poetry. He's Russian. I would see his poems published on a mimeographed YMHA Journal in Brooklyn. This is in the '50s and I'd see this...
Cops, criminals, and NYC—award-winning author Richard Price, returns to these themes in his new book, The Whites. Dennis Lehane wrote, "Whether you call it a crime novel or a mystery novel or a giraffe with polka dots is largely irrelevant--The Whites is, simply put, a great American novel." Price, author of Lush Life and Clockers, discusses his new detective story with Henry Chang, author of an acclaimed series of Chinatown-based crime novels.
Writing dialogue is a knack, Price says. Either you have it, or you don't. Question: How do you write dialogue? Richard Price: It's pretty intuitive. I think dialogue is a knack; either you have it or you don't. A lot of writers find other elements of writing a lot easier than I do. I have a terrible time writing the King's English. I couldn't punctuate a four-word sentence if my life depended on it. I hear people. When I'm writing, I hear people. I do improv. I'll be out on the street and I'll pick up the rhythm of it but it's not like anthropology. It's not like I'm trying to get the glossary right. It's just about expressing how somebody's brain works through what comes out of their mouth. I went to management meetings at Schiller's and I rode around with cops a lot. I was kind of a f...
Price says he doesn't feel the pressure of writing for a show with such a cult following. Question: Is it hard to write for a show with a cult following? Richard Price: No. It has a cultish following because it's so riveting and I had been watching the show for two years before they approached me. So I was up to speed on every character. In fact, David Simon told me The Wire was based on Clockers. He wrote Homicide: A Year in the Life on the Streets and I wrote Clockers, both in 1992. We had the same editor, John Sterling. John Sterling put us together the night of the Rodney King verdict rioting. He and I had our first play date when we went over to Jersey City to watch the riots. So we've been friends since 1992 and he said Clockers is the book he meant to write so he did The Wire inst...
A testimonial film for Valtra with customer Richard Price of Lowther Park Farms in Cumbria. This film formed part of a national promotional campaign by Green Square for Valtra.
Writing dialogue is a knack, Price says. Either you have it, or you don't. Question: How do you write dialogue? Richard Price: It's pretty intuitive. I think dialogue is a knack; either you have it or you don't. A lot of writers find other elements of writing a lot easier than I do. I have a terrible time writing the King's English. I couldn't punctuate a four-word sentence if my life depended on it. I hear people. When I'm writing, I hear people. I do improv. I'll be out on the street and I'll pick up the rhythm of it but it's not like anthropology. It's not like I'm trying to get the glossary right. It's just about expressing how somebody's brain works through what comes out of their mouth. I went to management meetings at Schiller's and I rode around with cops a lot. I was kind of a f...
“You have to write about the thing you’ll be the world’s greatest expert in.” In this humorous conversation award-winning authors and friends Richard Ford and Colm Tóibín discuss each other’s work and exchange the secrets to prose writing. “I think writers have a duty to be silly when they’re not writing. And when they are writing, they have a duty not to be silly,” says Colm Tóibín in this in-depth conversation between two authors with intimate knowledge of each other’s work. American Richard Ford and Irish Colm Tóibín both teach writing at Columbia University in New York, USA, and here they discuss the differences in style, nationality and subject matter that divide them in a celebration of literature and writing. The authors also read from their novels ‘Let Me Be Frank With You’ (2014...
To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit: http://newsreel.org/video/JAMES-BALDWIN-THE-PRICE-OF-THE-TICKET Film biography of the life of James Baldwin includes excerpts from his work . Writers Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed and William Styron discuss Baldwin's influence. http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0049
Frankie Boyle chats about comic fandom, reading to his kids, and his big red beard at Kapow! Comic Convention. Frankie Boyle answered questions from Jimmy Carr and the audience about all things comic book on a panel at Kapow! Watch Frankie Boyle on his comic book Red Royd in Clint magazine http://youtu.be/OTxZU43OzWI http://bit.ly/movie-interviews-tv - Watch more comic book interviews! http://FlicksAndTheCity.com - Visit Flicks and the City! http://facebook.com/FlicksAndTheCity - Like Flicks and the City on Facebook! http://twitter.com/flickscity - Follow Flicks and the City on Twitter! Interviewer: Jan Gilbert http://twitter.com/jan_gilbert - Follow Jan on Twitter! http://JanGilbert.co.uk - Visit JanGilbert.co.uk! Featured on http://flicksandthecity.com/rex-royd-with-frankie-boyle/ ...
Dialogue host Marcia Franklin talks with novelist and short story writer Richard Ford about his works and life. The two discuss the themes in his books, why he wanted to write another novel in the Frank Bascombe series, and race relations in America. The interview was taped at the 2015 Sun Valley Writers' Conference.
Internationally acclaimed poet David Whyte is an Associate Fellow at Templeton College and Said Business School at the University of Oxford, David works with many European, American and international companies, using poetry and thoughtful commentary to illustrate how we can foster qualities of courage and engagement. In his talk, David encourages us to remain open to know the dialogue with our surroundings inform and inspire our ideas About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are bra...
Historic debate between James Baldwin v. William F. Buckley Jr. at Cambridge University on the question: "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?"
On April 24, 2013, Americas Society hosted a conversation and reading featuring Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco, recipient of the prestigious Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the featured poet at President Barack Obama's second inauguration in January 2013. In this video, Blanco reads a poem called "Betting on America" from his book Looking for The Gulf Coast (2012).
Richard Price, author of the new novel "The Whites," talks about what goes into the writing of his novels with Jeffrey Brown. Read the story: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/writing-process-behind-richard-prices-newest-book/
Richard Price needs no introduction. One of great novelists of our time to capture city life in all its beauty, complications and mess in such masterful best selling novels as The Wanderers, Clockers, and Lush Life. It’s hard to think of another writer today with such a command of language and the vernacular, evidenced in his brilliant television and movie work, a screenplay for The Color of Money and writing for The Wire. Price joined the Crime Fiction Academy for a Master Class in writing and a discussion of his latest work.
Subscribe for more videos like this: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=92Yplus Richard Price, one of America’s most gifted novelists, has always written brilliantly about cops, criminals and New York City. Now, writing as Harry Brandt, he is poised to win a huge following among all those who hunger for first-rate crime fiction. Join him and David Simon (“The Wire”) for a conversation about The Whites. Follow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/92ndStreetY Twitter: https://twitter.com/92Y Tumblr: http://92y.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://Instagram.com/92ndStreetY 92Y.org: http://92Y.org
Richard Price says nobody has ever produced good work on drugs.
Writing as Harry Brandt, Price has concocted a fast-paced literary thriller that pays homage as much to Melville as it does to today’s urban realities. Billy Graves has barely hung on in the NYPD since he accidentally shot a ten-year-old boy nearly twenty years ago. Stuck on the night shift, Graves suddenly relives the past when a slashing victim turns out to be a suspect in a case from the old days. Soon other elusive criminals—known by their frustrated pursuers as “whites,” after Moby Dick—begin to surface, just as a stalker terrorizes Graves’s family. Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics & Prose o...
By the time he was eleven, Price wanted to be a journalist, though he didn't quite know what that meant. Question: Did you always know you wanted to be a writer? Richard Price: Honestly, yes. I found sort of a graduation autograph book from 6th grade. I must've been 11 years old. You give it to all the kids in your class and it's a "Good luck, you loser." There's a page where you fill out your hopes and dreams and for some reason, I wrote down journalist. I didn't even know what a journalist was and I spelled it right. So yeah, I guess I did.No, I started writing in elementary school believe it or not. My grandfather was a factory worker but he also wrote poetry. He's Russian. I would see his poems published on a mimeographed YMHA Journal in Brooklyn. This is in the '50s and I'd see this...
Cops, criminals, and NYC—award-winning author Richard Price, returns to these themes in his new book, The Whites. Dennis Lehane wrote, "Whether you call it a crime novel or a mystery novel or a giraffe with polka dots is largely irrelevant--The Whites is, simply put, a great American novel." Price, author of Lush Life and Clockers, discusses his new detective story with Henry Chang, author of an acclaimed series of Chinatown-based crime novels.
Writing dialogue is a knack, Price says. Either you have it, or you don't. Question: How do you write dialogue? Richard Price: It's pretty intuitive. I think dialogue is a knack; either you have it or you don't. A lot of writers find other elements of writing a lot easier than I do. I have a terrible time writing the King's English. I couldn't punctuate a four-word sentence if my life depended on it. I hear people. When I'm writing, I hear people. I do improv. I'll be out on the street and I'll pick up the rhythm of it but it's not like anthropology. It's not like I'm trying to get the glossary right. It's just about expressing how somebody's brain works through what comes out of their mouth. I went to management meetings at Schiller's and I rode around with cops a lot. I was kind of a f...
Price says he doesn't feel the pressure of writing for a show with such a cult following. Question: Is it hard to write for a show with a cult following? Richard Price: No. It has a cultish following because it's so riveting and I had been watching the show for two years before they approached me. So I was up to speed on every character. In fact, David Simon told me The Wire was based on Clockers. He wrote Homicide: A Year in the Life on the Streets and I wrote Clockers, both in 1992. We had the same editor, John Sterling. John Sterling put us together the night of the Rodney King verdict rioting. He and I had our first play date when we went over to Jersey City to watch the riots. So we've been friends since 1992 and he said Clockers is the book he meant to write so he did The Wire inst...
A testimonial film for Valtra with customer Richard Price of Lowther Park Farms in Cumbria. This film formed part of a national promotional campaign by Green Square for Valtra.
Richard Price needs no introduction. One of great novelists of our time to capture city life in all its beauty, complications and mess in such masterful best selling novels as The Wanderers, Clockers, and Lush Life. It’s hard to think of another writer today with such a command of language and the vernacular, evidenced in his brilliant television and movie work, a screenplay for The Color of Money and writing for The Wire. Price joined the Crime Fiction Academy for a Master Class in writing and a discussion of his latest work.
Subscribe for more videos like this: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=92Yplus Richard Price, one of America’s most gifted novelists, has always written brilliantly about cops, criminals and New York City. Now, writing as Harry Brandt, he is poised to win a huge following among all those who hunger for first-rate crime fiction. Join him and David Simon (“The Wire”) for a conversation about The Whites. Follow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/92ndStreetY Twitter: https://twitter.com/92Y Tumblr: http://92y.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://Instagram.com/92ndStreetY 92Y.org: http://92Y.org
Writing as Harry Brandt, Price has concocted a fast-paced literary thriller that pays homage as much to Melville as it does to today’s urban realities. Billy Graves has barely hung on in the NYPD since he accidentally shot a ten-year-old boy nearly twenty years ago. Stuck on the night shift, Graves suddenly relives the past when a slashing victim turns out to be a suspect in a case from the old days. Soon other elusive criminals—known by their frustrated pursuers as “whites,” after Moby Dick—begin to surface, just as a stalker terrorizes Graves’s family. Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics & Prose o...
Cops, criminals, and NYC—award-winning author Richard Price, returns to these themes in his new book, The Whites. Dennis Lehane wrote, "Whether you call it a crime novel or a mystery novel or a giraffe with polka dots is largely irrelevant--The Whites is, simply put, a great American novel." Price, author of Lush Life and Clockers, discusses his new detective story with Henry Chang, author of an acclaimed series of Chinatown-based crime novels.
Novelist Richard Price visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to discuss his novel "Lush Life." This event took place on March 27, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.
In NYC as elsewhere, metamorphosis is a violent act. Every new influx creates an equal expulsion. Gentrification is as old as the city itself, but is the real estate-driven transformation to a safer and more affluent community worth the obliteration of what existed before. Participants: Fran Leibowitz and Richard Price
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The country’s pre-eminent chronicler of the darker realities of urban life talks about what really has — and hasn’t — changed in the soul of great American cities. Richard Price, author and screenwriter Moderator: William Rashbaum, senior writer, The New York Times
The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his own dark past, and by a violent stalker seeking revenge. Back in the run-and-gun days of the mid-1990s, when a young Billy Graves worked in the South Bronx as part of an aggressive anti-crime unit known as the Wild Geese, he made headlines by accidentally shooting a ten-year-old boy while struggling with an angel-dusted berserker on a crowded street. Branded as a loose cannon by his higher-ups, Billy spent years enduring one dead-end posting after another. Now in his early forties, he has somehow survived and become a sergeant in Manhattan Night Watch, a small team of detectives charged with responding to all post-midnight felonies from Wall Street to Harlem. Mostly, his unit acts as little...