Richard Price, celebrated author of Clockers (adapted as a movie directed by Spike Lee), and a key screenwriter for HBO’s “The Wire,” is a renowned author of gritty crime fiction set in the devastated neighborhoods of America’s cities.
His new novel, Lazarus Man (Nov. 2024), recounts the aftermath of a catastrophe in Harlem: a five-story tenement collapses into a hill of rubble, pancaking the cars parked in front and coating the street with a thick layer of ash. As the city’s rescue services and media outlets respond, the surrounding neighborhood descends into chaos. Publishers Weekly said, “Price once again proves he’s the bard of New York City street life.”
4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1
Conversation / Q&A, moderated by Casey Seiler, Editor, Albany Times Union
University at Albany
Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West
1400 Washington Avenue Albany NY 12222
Presented by the NYS Writers Institute.
Cosponsored by UAlbany’s Writing & Critical Inquiry Program (WCI) and the English Department’s Creative Writing Program and Young Writers Project, and the School of Criminal Justice’s “Justice and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Project.”
