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Barry Gifford's diverse interests, varied influences, wide travels, and multitudinous acquaintances have fueled his prolific writing career. In a series of anecdotal reflections, Gifford relates many of the key experiences that shaped him as a writer: a nine-part dossier on the 1961 Marlon Brando film One-Eyed Jacks in which Gifford examines the public and private lives of those involved in the film, ultimately producing a kaleidoscopic and onnovative framework for thinking about the movie; unique profiles of Artie Shaw, William Burroughs, Val Lewton, and B. Traven; and an essay about the making of an opera based on Gifford's Lost Highway. Also included are the full text of Gifford's stunning libretto for the opera Madrugada, a recounting of his work with Matt Dillon on Dillon's film City of Ghosts, and much more. Book lovers will treasure Gifford's compendium, entitled "Read 'Em and Weep," of the books that have been most influential for him as a writer. Several titles are already regarded as "classics" of English literature, but mnay are by little-known authors that will surely provide hours of additional reading for Gifford's fands.
Part memoir, part literary criticism, part free rumination on life and experience--The Calvary Charges is a treasure trove of wisdom and insight.
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Bernie Marlow
reviewed The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Film, Music, and Books on March 15, 2011
The Cavalry Charges: Writings on Film, Music, and Books
Gifford takes an elliptical approach to noir tropes in his fiction, a tack that can either please or frustrate the reader, depending. Personally, I think Port Tropique is just about as good as contempo-American Noir gets; The Sinaloa Story, on the other hand, I'm not so crazy for.
Regardless, this approach is what gets Gifford published, and read. No surprise, then, that he takes the indirect route into his chosen subject matter when it comes to essay-writing, too. So we get, when Gifford mentions Don Quixote as a favored text, nothing more or less than an extended appreciation of the late Gabby Hayes. Or, once collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola on his Jack Kerouac picture is 86ed, a brief and telling vignette of what an evening dinner with the director looks like.
If Gifford were a blogger, these would be his posts -- and, in fact, if you check out his website you can read one or two of the short, type-written pieces from The Cavalry Charges and decide for yourself if this collection is more to your taste than it was to mine.
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