In conversation with Peter Maravelis, City Lights Books and Publishing.
For forty years, The Roy Stories have been the one continuous unbroken line in the otherwise kaleidoscopic career of one of America’s greatest living writers. Spanning time and space—the Southern and Midwestern United States from the 1940s through the 1980s—The Roy Stories chronicle the personal history of Gifford from Chicago to Miami in a Hemingway-style Nick Adams story. Emotional, exploratory, and brimming with photographic realism, these stories defy the parameters of memoir or autobiography.
Poet, novelist and master of the short story, Barry Gifford, is best known for Wild at Heart, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings, Memories from a Sinking Ship: A Novel and Landscape with Traveler. He has published over forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages.
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