–It’s difficult to imagine the Lower East Side without Richard Price. But apparently he hasn’t been there all along.
Curbed reports that the novelist and screenwriter has sold his apartment for $9.95 million to John and Jasanna Briton. As if that weren’t juicy enough, the apartment at 142 East 19th Street is Read More
Two influential art dealers leave their posts for higher-profile gigs, museum directors settle down in plush, tax-free homes, and artists cash in on lucrative sneaker design deals. This week in art news: When opportunity knocks…
1. Lehman Brothers to Auction Off More Art
In an effort to repay creditors, Lehman Brothers Read More
Barack Obama‘s campaign managers are focused on keeping celebrities off the stage and out of sight of cameras in order to prevent further "celebrity" attacks from the McCain camp. [NY Daily News]
That’s not stopping them from coming to Denver, though. Rosario Dawson, Jessica Alba, Eva Longoria, Fat Joe, Wilmer Valderrama and Read More
Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin have acquired screen rights to Richard Price’s novel Lush Life, just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Mr. Price, who recently won the Edgar Award for his script work on HBO series The Wire, will write the script, with a "mid-six against seven figures" deal, according to Variety. Read More
Joe Roth’s Freedomland, from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on his novel, has received mostly unfavorable reviews (and a scattering of favorable ones), though I am not sure why. This is to say that I was initially drawn to the movie by my curiosity about what Mr. Price was up to these days in Read More
Joe Roth’s Freedomland, from a screenplay by Richard Price, based on his novel, has received mostly unfavorable reviews (and a scattering of favorable ones), though I am not sure why. This is to say that I was initially drawn to the movie by my curiosity about what Mr. Price was up to these days in Read More
Freedomland , by Richard Price. Broadway Books, 546 pages, $35.
Stories about the urban poor, these days, are too often left to television cop shows and sensational segments of magazine shows. Richard Price is one of the few American novelists who dares to explore the realm, and one of the handful who manage Read More
