Richard Price

'THE WIRE' ON THE WEB. As you enjoy that new DVD finale of HBO's "The Wire," check out a panel discussion now online from Astoria's savvy Museum of the Moving Image. The July 30 panel - featuring creator David Simon, writer Richard Price, and stars Seth...

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A list of national bestsellers compiled by Publishers Weekly HARDCOVER FICTION 1. CHANGE OF HEART, by Jodi Picoult (Atria) 2. THE APPEAL, by John Grisham (Doubleday) 3. REMEMBER ME?, by Sophie Kinsella (Dial) 4. 7TH HEAVEN, by James Patterson &...

LUSH LIFE, by Richard Price. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 455 pp., $26. A mugging gone violently wrong is at the center of Richard Price's new novel, "Lush Life." Scraping the spick-and-span surface of the "new" New York to get at the grit beneath, Price...

City of Thieves A Novel David Benioff Viking: 260 pp., $24.95 DAVID BENIOFF'S second novel (after "The 25th Hour," which Spike Lee directed for the screen) features a snappy plot, a buoyant friendship, a quirky courtship, an assortment of menacing bad...

Richard Price had me at The Wanderers. His darkly hilarious debut novel about a teenage gang in the Bronx burst onto the scene in 1974, wowing readers with its realistically raw dialogue and brilliant insights. Price followed with Blood Brothers,...

Lush Life By Richard Price Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 455 pages, $26 Richard Price takes cliched moves by police officers and gives them a postmodern twist. In one of the pivotal scenes of his new novel, "Lush Life," two detectives monitor a large...

SCOTT RUDIN met one of the key role models for his life when he was a teenager. In the early 1970s, when other kids were playing guitar, shooting hoops or just seeing how long their hair could grow, the 15-year-old Rudin spent his days working for theater...

It's easy to understand how bright, ambitious moviemakers could be drawn to a novel like Richard Price's "Freedomland." Its story line delivers a swift, promising pitch: A desperate search for a missing child plays out against a ticking time bomb of...

Big question: A former drug addict (Julianne Moore) enlists the help of a cop (Samuel L. Jackson) when her son disappears. Has Moore forgotten "The Forgotten"? Skip it: The actors in "Freedomland" don't play characters; they represent static states of...

When Sam Jackson was making "Coach Carter," in which he played a high school basketball coach who locked his team out of the gym until the players got their grades in order, he had a grueling scene where he had to shoot a three-page speech that was one of...

It's late, in a rough part of town, and a bedraggled blond shuffles down streets that positively shimmer with menace. The woman is oblivious, possibly on drugs, as she trudges listlessly past steaming grates, trailing lights, spooked cats, police...