Is there a better writer of urban American stories than Richard Price? His resume is hard to beat: To episodes of HBO’s “The Wire,” and “The Night Of,” and novels like “Clockers,” ...
When I am appointed czar of the high-school English curriculum, one of the contemporary works of fiction I will recommend for inclusion on the reading list will be Richard Price’s 1992 novel, ...
Price’s four interlaced East Harlem protagonists are big-souled people navigating narrow, “negotiated life.” What they want for themselves—someone to lie beside, a little more money ...