Richard Price, “the greatest writer of dialogue, living or dead, this country has ever produced” (Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review), celebrates the launch of his long-awaited new novel with a reading and wide-ranging conversation.
In bestselling, acclaimed novels like Clockers, Lush Life, and The Whites — and iconic screenwriting for television and film like The Wire, The Night Of, The Color of Money, and more — Richard Price has distinguished himself as one of the great city storytellers that America has produced in a generation. In electrifying dialogue and unforgettable characters, his writing cuts to the core, comprising works of riveting suspense and expansive vision.
In his new novel, Lazarus Man — his first in nine years — he creates an unforgettable, intertwined portrait of East Harlem in 2008. Following the fallout of a five-story tenement building’s collapse into a fuming hill of rubble — leaving six dead and many others missing — Price tells the story of the lives who are forever transformed by the disaster, and a community on the brink of ruin. At the launch of its publication, weaving together grand social vision and gripping drama, hear one of America’s major storytellers discuss his brand new, magnificent New York saga.
“Richard Price has become our post-modern American Balzac. Except that he’s a whole lot funnier than Balzac and writes the language we hear and speak better than any novelist around, living or dead, American or French. He’s a writer I hope my great-grandchildren will read, so they’ll know what it was like to be truly alive in the early 21st century.”
Russell Banks
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