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Richard Price
Author
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Richard Price Reads from "Lush Life"
"Let me go and I'll tell you who shot that white kid." Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Richard Price on Drugs and Writing
Richard Price says nobody has ever produced good work on drugs. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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What Richard Price Loves About New York
Price prefers the old New York. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Politics & Policy
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Richard Price on New York Literature
The lag time of books. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Re: What is the state of journalism today?
The pressure of turning a buck. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Media & Internet
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Price says he doesn't feel the pressure of writing for a show with such a cult following. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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What was your most memorable collaboration?
Price loved working with Martin Scorsese. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Richard Price on Michael Jackson's "Bad"
The author of 'Lush Life' also wrote the script for the 'Bad' video. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Richard Price on Screenwriting
An ear for dialogue is a plus, Price says, but it isn't everything Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Richard Price on Becoming a Writer
By the time he was eleven, Price wanted to be a journalist, though he didn't quite know what that meant. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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How has technology changed the way you work and live?
Richard Price on the surprise of getting a hand-written letter. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Science & Tech
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Did you hit any writer's block while writing?
Price says the writing was smooth. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Richard Price on Writing Dialogue
Writing dialogue is a knack, Price says. Either you have it, or you don't. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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What attracts you to the American city street?
For Richard Price, the projects are home. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Re: Has something been lost on the Lower East Side?
Do you want to replace the junkies with the yuppies? Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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What inspired your characters?
Sometimes the best models are real people, Price says. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Is the Eric Cash character based on anyone?
Richard Price writes his fears. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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How do you handle a touchy subject?
I’ll do anything in my power not to be PC short of being insulting. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
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Re: What inspired you to write Lush Life?
A robbery turned suicide on New York's Lower East Side. Read More
April 28, 2008 | In Arts & Culture
Richard Price is a novelist and screenwriter. His books explore the urban world in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Price grew up in a housing project in the northeast Bronx. He is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, has a Bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and an MFA from Columbia. He also did graduate work at Stanford.Price has written eight novels. His first was The Wanderers (1974), a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx in 1962, written when Price was 24 years old. It was adapted into a movie in 1979 by director Philip Kaufman. Price's other novels include Bloodbrothers (1976), Clockers (1992), Freedomland (1998), Samaritan (2003), and Lush Life (2008).He has written numerous screenplays, of which the best known are The Color of Money (1986) for which he was nominated for an Oscar, Sea of Love (1989), Mad Dog and Glory (1992), Ransom (1996), Shaft (2000). He also wrote for the HBO series The Wire. He is often featured in cameo roles in the films he writes.Price has written for The New York Times, Esquire Magazine, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone and other publications. He lives in New York City with his family and has taught writing at Columbia, Yale, and New York University (NYU).In 1999, Price received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature.
