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INTERVIEW: Richard Price on LAZARUS MAN and More
Richard Price’s new novel Lazarus Man was released on November 12th. This past Friday Price sat down with me at his home in Harlem for an interview (our second, after our previous conversation in 2016) about the new book, his … Continue reading
THE OUTSIDER (TV Series, 2020)
Executive produced by Richard Price Seven episodes written by Richard Price: S1E1 “Fish in a Barrel,” S1E2 “Roanoke,” S1E3 “Dark Uncle,” S1E4 “Que Viene El Coco,” S1E5 “Tear-Drinker,” S1E8 “Foxhead,” S1E10 “Must/Can’t” I’ve waited a while to review this series … Continue reading
THE DEUCE (TV Series, 2017-2019)
Executive produced/co-executive produced by Richard Price Six episodes written or co-written by Richard Price: S1E2 “Show and Prove” (with George Pelecanos), S1E3 “The Principle Is All” (with David Simon), S1E5 “What Kind of Bad?” (story by Price, teleplay by Will … Continue reading
THE NIGHT OF (TV Series, 2016)
Executive produced by Richard Price; all episodes written or co-written by Richard Price I’ll avoid spoilers as much as possible in this review, but given the whodunit elements of the The Night Of‘s story, consider watching the show before reading … Continue reading
INTERVIEW: Richard Price on THE NIGHT OF and More
Richard Price’s latest project is the HBO limited series The Night Of, on which he served as writer and executive producer. The series follows the arrest and trial of a 23-year-old New Yorker (Riz Ahmed) accused of murder, with John Turturro as the … Continue reading
CHILD 44 (Film, 2015)
Directed by Daniel Espinosa Screenplay by Richard Price, adapted from the novel by Tom Rob Smith In my “Epilogue” post last year, I said that I didn’t want to keep reviewing Richard Price’s work contemporaneously as it was released because … Continue reading
THE WHITES (Novel, 2015) – Review
My original plan for Priced Out was that I would review everything Richard Price had written prior to the release of his new novel The Whites and then stop, rather than continuing to review his new stuff as it came … Continue reading
THE WHITES (Novel, 2015)/Epilogue
“I’m a novelist. I’m a good novelist and I’ll get better. I’ve found my calling and if I have my way I’ll be turning out books for the next half-century, books that will blow people away.” –Richard Price, 1976 The … Continue reading
Odds and Ends
As this blog has hopefully demonstrated by now, Richard Price’s body of work is pretty impressively extensive. He’s not a prolific novelist (when The Whites hits shelves on Tuesday it’ll be only the ninth novel he’s put out since he … Continue reading
NYC 22 (TV Series, 2012)
Created by Richard Price Four episodes written by Richard Price: “Pilot,” “Ransom,” “Self Cleaning Oven” and “Crossing the Rubicon” Richard Price’s relationship with television has always been complicated, even before he worked in the medium himself. His writing style, especially … Continue reading