Alamo Draft House and City Lights Booksellers present
Barry Gifford
in a talk and film screening
celebrating the release of
Southern Nights, Night People, Arise and Walk, Baby Cat Face
from Seven Stories Press
at Alamo Draft House, 2550 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Phone: (415) 549-5959
Doors at 8:30, book signing / Talk and film screening 9:30 p.m.
Alamo Draft House will be screening the short film American Falls and the directors cut of Wild at Heart. The films will be introduced by Barry Gifford and he will offer a short discussion about his work.
Barry Gifford's three Southern Gothic novels, Night People, Arise and Walk, and Baby Cat-Face, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford's novels for their sheer velocity--the copious, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we've never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it's the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford's best, reminders of the author's seemingly unlimited range and versatility, a comic-tragic genius for our time.
As a character in Night People says, "Safety first ain't never been my motto."
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Barry Gifford
in a talk and film screening
celebrating the release of
Southern Nights, Night People, Arise and Walk, Baby Cat Face
from Seven Stories Press
at Alamo Draft House, 2550 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Phone: (415) 549-5959
Doors at 8:30, book signing / Talk and film screening 9:30 p.m.
Alamo Draft House will be screening the short film American Falls and the directors cut of Wild at Heart. The films will be introduced by Barry Gifford and he will offer a short discussion about his work.
Barry Gifford's three Southern Gothic novels, Night People, Arise and Walk, and Baby Cat-Face, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford's novels for their sheer velocity--the copious, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we've never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it's the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford's best, reminders of the author's seemingly unlimited range and versatility, a comic-tragic genius for our time.
As a character in Night People says, "Safety first ain't never been my motto."
Alamo Draft House and City Lights Booksellers present
Barry Gifford
in a talk and film screening
celebrating the release of
Southern Nights, Night People, Arise and Walk, Baby Cat Face
from Seven Stories Press
at Alamo Draft House, 2550 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Phone: (415) 549-5959
Doors at 8:30, book signing / Talk and film screening 9:30 p.m.
Alamo Draft House will be screening the short film American Falls and the directors cut of Wild at Heart. The films will be introduced by Barry Gifford and he will offer a short discussion about his work.
Barry Gifford's three Southern Gothic novels, Night People, Arise and Walk, and Baby Cat-Face, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford's novels for their sheer velocity--the copious, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we've never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it's the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford's best, reminders of the author's seemingly unlimited range and versatility, a comic-tragic genius for our time.
As a character in Night People says, "Safety first ain't never been my motto."
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Barry Gifford
in a talk and film screening
celebrating the release of
Southern Nights, Night People, Arise and Walk, Baby Cat Face
from Seven Stories Press
at Alamo Draft House, 2550 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Phone: (415) 549-5959
Doors at 8:30, book signing / Talk and film screening 9:30 p.m.
Alamo Draft House will be screening the short film American Falls and the directors cut of Wild at Heart. The films will be introduced by Barry Gifford and he will offer a short discussion about his work.
Barry Gifford's three Southern Gothic novels, Night People, Arise and Walk, and Baby Cat-Face, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford's novels for their sheer velocity--the copious, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we've never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it's the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford's best, reminders of the author's seemingly unlimited range and versatility, a comic-tragic genius for our time.
As a character in Night People says, "Safety first ain't never been my motto."
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