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	Salon \| Sneak Peeks
		The only problem is, Rudy was such a mystery man to Gifford (Gifford was 8 when his parents separated, in the mid-'50s, and he was 12 when his father died) that he doesn't quite know how to reveal him to us.
		Gifford writes of seeing the pain on his father's face, but his macho streak cuts across -- and mars -- his prose like a zigzag scar.
		Gifford doesn't try to wrap up each one with a tidy little summation -- life just doesn't work that way, and his honest recognition of that is refreshing.
	www.salon.com /may97/sneaks/sneak970525.html (323 words)

	Lost Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is a crime film, arguably an example of contemporary film noir, but with surreal imagery and themes.
		Lynch co-wrote the screenplay with Barry Gifford; the soundtrack is by Angelo Badalamenti.
		Lost Highway has been published as a screenplay by David Lynch and Barry Gifford by Faber and Faber (ISBN 0571191509).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lost_Highway (410 words)

	Oliver Stone and Barry Gifford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		GIFFORD I remember being scared to death for the first time when I walked into a bookstore and I realized that I was staring at the same book, stacked in a huge pile from the top down to the floor.
		GIFFORD You know, I grew up in a sort of cynical way, because as a kid I was around racketeers and I would hear about how so-and-so is on somebody's payroll, political figures, sports figures, and how everything was down to the fix.
		GIFFORD Frank Capra made several films that were, on the surface at any rate, critical of big business, but I think that while he was expressing a dislike of greed, of manipulation, what he was really doing was reinforcing the American system.
	www.jordanelgrably.com /stonegifford.html (6814 words)

	Quiet At The Back: Barry Gifford Is Wild At Heart by Andrew Jamieson
		Gifford’s only measure in his field of the obscure, in my eyes, is with Lynch.
		Lynch and Gifford seem to be on such a similar wavelength that their collaborations highlight one another’s uniqueness.
		Gifford clearly loves Sailor and Lula, loves writing about them and this passion for his characters gives the books a momentum that makes them a really absorbingly fast read (a good thing).
	www.allanguthrie.co.uk /gifford.htm (1334 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! A&E Feature 11 02 04
		The publication of Gifford's most recent work, the poetry collection Back in America (which will be released Sunday, Nov. 7, by local small press Light of New Orleans) marks a return, of sorts, to the city that has played such a vibrant role in his books.
		Gifford is somewhat distinct among American writers for his work across a broad spectrum of genres, ranging from songs to libretti to screenplays to journalism to novels.
		Barry Gifford will be joined at this reading by David Brinks, Chris Champagne, Lee Meitzen Grue and Kay Murphy.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2004-11-02/ae_feat.html (954 words)

	For Immediate Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Barry Gifford is a San Francisco Bay Area literary lion whose deserved screenwriting success should not overshadow his talent as a novelist, poet and writer of memoirs," said Alan Soldofsky, director of the Center for Literary Arts.
		Gifford's new novel is about his background which he says has greatly influenced all of his works.
		Gifford wrote the screenplay of his second novel in that series, Perdita Durango, which was recently released as a film in Spain, starring Rosie Perez.
	www.sjsu.edu /news_and_info/releases/102797.html (535 words)

	Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gifford, as per his usual M.O., suggests but doesn't explain the motel owner's motive.
		Gifford observes that actors are "perhaps the least well-equipped human beings on the planet to lead successful personal lives." This is saying a lot in Gifford's world, where most lives are an amazing mess.
		However, grace and epiphany seem to be always floating at the edge of these lives and this, for me, is what makes him an artist to keep up on, even when he's just goofing around, as he is here for the most part.
	www.marklindquist.net /falls.html (232 words)

	Bookslut \| Do the Blind Dream? by Barry Gifford
		Whether the family hears or even notices the dead woman isn’t made fully clear, but her determination to comfort her grieving family is. I was never entirely sure if the scene was actually happening, or if one of the family members was dreaming, or it was all in the mind of the woman who died.
		What runs through Gifford’s mind when he composes these stories and what he actually puts down in words must be completely different arrangements.
		Gifford’s longest piece in the book, a novella titled “Havana Moon,” reads like a mystery, with betrayed trust, concealed identities, and unrequited love all in one.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2004_07_002778.php (654 words)

	TARPAULIN SKY POETRY: Barry Gifford, American Music
		Barry Gifford's most recent book is American Falls: The Collected Short Stories of Barry Gifford.
		Forthcoming in the spring of 2003 is The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader.
		Gifford co-wrote with David Lynch the screenplay for Lost Highway.
	www.tarpaulinsky.com /Winter02/Barry_Gifford_AM.html (88 words)

	Powell's Books - Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir by Barry Gifford
		Gifford's roll call of unforgettables includes these, and more: The Asphalt Jungle, Body and Soul, Body Heat, Charley Varrick, Chinatown, The Devil Thumbs a Ride, D.O.A., Double Indemnity, High Sierra, Key Largo, Kiss of Death, Mean Streets, Mildred Pierce, Mr.
		Gifford identifies the directors and names the many noir stars, the greats and not-so-greats who were cast in the indelible roles of hoods, B-girls, psychopaths, grifters, gumshoes, waifs, tarts, femme fatales, mobsters, molls, and ex-cons.
		BARRY GIFFORD is a poet, novelist, and playwright.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=157806290X (391 words)

	Barry Gifford
		"Barry Gifford was, is, and always shall be an American Original.
		Gifford seems to have anticipated themes that suddenly are recognizable everywhere: the fragility of identity; the power of coincidence; the illusion of a secure tomorrow.
		The broad contours of an episodic output emerge — a full-length view of the freaks and freakish incidents that populate Gifford's unique human comedy.
	www.barrygifford.com /home.html (699 words)

	identity theory \| interviews \| barry gifford
		Author [poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, editor, memoirist, biographer, critic, songwriter, and playwright] Barry Gifford was born in Chicago in 1946.
		Barry Gifford is both a cult writer and a great one.
		Barry Gifford: Someone made the comment that this was a really a milestone having a portable Barry Gifford reader.
	www.identitytheory.com /interviews/birnbaum112.html (6195 words)

	Barry Gifford - Synaesthesia Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Barry Gifford has, over the past few years, become a special friend of the press.
		Gifford's first chap book he did with the press, The Strangest One of All, contains a great, short narrative about a visit he took to the Bunker.
		With the generous help of Barry Gifford, the synaesthesia press has become a much better thing, for lack of a better term...
	www.chapbooks.org /gifford (152 words)

	Barry Gifford Interview
		Barry Gifford wrote Lost Highway with Lynch, the original Wild at Heart novel and segments for the little seen Lynch television project Hotel Room.
		Lost Highway was inspired by a line from Gifford's Night People, "We're just a couple of Apaches riding wild on the lost highway." While the director thought of adapting one of the novellas from the book, the writer said, "Let's do something original.
		The strip now has only one side that flips both inside and outside the shape." Gifford continues, "It made it easier to explain things to ourselves and keeping it straightforward.
	www.lynchnet.com /lh/lhgifford.html (736 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gifford is multi-talented, having published poetry, fiction (both short and novel-length) and non-fiction, as well as collaborating on screenplays based on two of his novels (Wild at Heart and Perdita Durango, aka Dance with the Devil) and on a screenplay based on a play he wrote (Hotel Room).
		Gifford obviously does not confine himself to suspense/mystery, but embraces films in all genres and lets fly with some strong opinions about all of them.
		Gifford does toss in a few British and French films to make things a little more inclusive, but it would be nice to see him move further afield with something like Kurosawa's 1949 film, Stray Dog or even Chungking Express.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/157806290X (837 words)

	Road Hypnosis / Mother flees past while son clings to it in Barry Gifford's static `Wyoming' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In ``Wyoming,'' a placid new play adapted from his forthcoming novel of the same name, Barry Gifford sets a mother (Anne Darragh) and her 8-year-old son (Alex Brightman) adrift across the American South and Midwest in the 1950s.
		Gifford and director Amy Glazer mean to have these vignettes create a prismatic portrait of mother and child, suspended in time and in search of their own future.
		Gifford, best known for his collaborations with film director David Lynch on ``Wild at Heart'' (adapted from his novel) and ``Lost Highway,'' has already sold the film rights to ``Wyoming.'' It may be that this material needs the screen's expressive atmosphere to release its full potential.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/04/17/DD29329.DTL&type=performance (717 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| 'The Mexican'
		Gifford is an author, a screenwriter, a playwright, and a poet.
		Vinnie, a pal of Gifford's since they were both 13, has earned a unique reputation of his own over the last few years, since Vinnie accompanies Gifford to most of his appearances and interviews.
		According to Gifford, a major magazine in Rome planned a piece on Gifford, but was so impressed with Vinnie--a self-described "Buddhist plumber"--that the resulting article was as much about Vinnie as it was about Gifford.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.08.01/talk-pix-0110.html (845 words)

	digipop » portfolio » barry gifford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Working with Barry Gifford to build his website was a pleasure.
		Barry has an extensive and constantly growing body of work, and we're big fans.
		Site design primarily serves as a record of Barry Gifford's work, as well as a bulletin board for upcoming appearances, and forthcoming works.
	www.digipop.com /portfolio/barrygifford.php (99 words)

	In the name of the father: three sue over shock death 13 years ago - National - www.smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The three children of Barry Gifford, a wharf worker, are suing Strang Patrick Stevedoring for negligence after their father was crushed to death by a forklift in Darling Harbour on June 14, 1990.
		Darren Gifford, then aged 19, his sister Kelly, 17, and brother Matthew, 14, were told of their father's death that afternoon.
		Mr Gifford told the court he had nightmares of the accident, dreaming sometimes that he was driving the forklift.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/02/17/1076779976210.html (515 words)

	Buy.com - Wild at Heart : Barry Gifford : ISBN 080213453X
		The heroes of Barry Gifford's world are Sailor and Lula, unconditional lovers whose dreams and adventures were David Lynch's inspiration for the award-winning movie version of this novel.
		"Barry Gifford is a stylist in the manner of Tom McGuane and Joy Williams, with the heart of Raymond Carver.
		Gifford's sense of life takes him back to life itself as it is lived now.
	www.buy.com /prod/Wild_at_Heart/q/loc/106/30154479.html (236 words)

	Books: Vamos al la Chngada (Weekly Alibi . 05-11-98)
		In that same vein, writer Barry Gifford and photographer David Perry set out on a road trip along the U.S.-Mexico border, documenting the lifestyle in these otherworldly towns with nonfiction, fiction, fl-and-white photography and drawings.
		But this is the only instance when Gifford and Perry seem to be on the same page, so to speak, when the photographs actually complement the text.
		The one in the middle, barely a woman, sits on the bartop with her shirt pulled to her waist; her face is innocent; it is the face of one of the Aztec princesses Gifford so often writes about.
	weeklywire.com /ww/05-11-98/alibi_art2.html (615 words)

	BARRY GIFFORD
		American Falls is the first major collection of short stories from Barry Gifford, master of the dark side of the American reality.
		Barry Gifford's father, a racketeer who ran an all-night liquor store in the 1950s, is memorialized in this unsentimental series of vignettes that capture the reckless glitz of mob-run Chicago.
		Barry Gifford, author of the novels Wild at Heart, Night People, Perdita Durango and, most recently, Wyoming, presents us with a collection of gems, poems mostly in the Chinese manner, fashioned as a response to the work of the great poet of the T'ang dynasty, Wang Wei.
	www.barrygifford.com (675 words)

	Amazon.com: The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room : A Barry Gifford Reader: Books: Barry Gifford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An accomplished novelist, Barry Gifford co-wrote the film Lost Highway (1997) with David Lynch, and co-wrote with director Matt Dillon the film City of Ghosts (2003).
		Gifford's recent books include The Phantom Father, named a New York Times notable Book of the Year, and Wyoming which was named a Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year.
		Gifford, Barry: The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1583225250?v=glance (468 words)

	The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader by Barry Gifford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It turns out to be a world Gifford inhabits, as much as it is his creation.
		In selections from The Phantom Father, a memoir, Gifford describes his nomadic boyhood as the son of a racketeer father and fashion-model mother.
		Gifford began as a poet, publishing for over a decade before writing his first novel in 1979; The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room groups seven new poems with selection from past work.
	www.bookcounter.com /big/1-58322-525-0 (411 words)

	MetroActive \| Sonoma Independent \| Talking Pictures
		The Gifford universe is a weird one, profoundly ugly yet profoundly sweet; magical, intense, violent, and funny, a volatile mix that has earned him a loyal following around the world.
		In his films, as in his novels, Gifford is not content to provide simply a diverting two hours in a darkened theater; he expects much more.
		Gifford is waiting for me, standing in the rain outside a crowded cineplex, just around the corner from his Berkeley home.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.07.96/talk-pic-9610.html (813 words)

	David Lynch (Lost Highway)
		And we sat there, um, for quite a long time in silence, and then I told Barry an idea that had come to the me the last night of shooting Fire Walk With Me. And it was the videotapes and a couple.
		And Barry loved this idea, and when you focus on an idea, even though its a fragment, it opens the door to other fragments that want to hook themselves to that idea and away we went.
		And so Barry and I were further down the road before we realized what it was that was happening; and so its a surprise.
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/DL01.HTM (4049 words)

	Barry Gifford @ Filmbug UK
		Barry Gifford's novels have been translated into twenty-two languages.
		David Lynch's film Wild at Heart, based on Gifford's novel, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990.
		Gifford's recently wrote The Phantom Father, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/343390 (238 words)

	The Edge book reviews Barry Gifford - Night People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Best known as the source novel from which David Lynch sculpted his occasionally impressive, occasionally inane road epic Wild At Heart, Night People continues Chicago born biographer, poet and essayist Barry Gifford's detailed and captivating examination of the lives of the low-down and down-trodden in the American South.
		Usually drawn under the umbrella of the crime genre, Gifford's literary prose is spare and mercuric, recalling the terse novels of militant New York lawyer Andrew Vachss, and his sharp, crackling, essentially real ear for dialogue is worthy of no less than Elmore Leonard himself.
		Barry Gifford par excellence, and a total delight.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /bookseh/nightpeople.htm (392 words)

	Cinefantastique Barry Gifford Interview
		In WILD AT HEART, Lynch even took a story, from a novel by Barry Gifford, and managed to graft on surreal images with- out ever quite losing the thread of the main narrative, the "story of Sailor and Lula" (as the book is subtitled).
		Gifford, on the other hand, is not so reluctant to discuss his intentions.
		The answer, of course, depends on the question, and the question that Lynch originally posed, as Gifford recalls, was: "What if one person woke up one day and was another person?" Gifford said, "We had to create a scenario to make that plausible.
	www.lynchnet.com /lh/cinebg.html (1054 words)

	Barry Gifford - Canongate Home
		Barry Gifford was born in Chicago in 1946.
		David Lynch's film Wild at Heart, which was based on Gifford's novel, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990.
		Barry Gifford co-wrote with director David Lynch the film Lost Highway (1997); he also co-wrote with director Matt Dillon the film City of Ghosts (2003).
	www.canongate.net /BarryGifford (189 words)

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