DAVID GOODIS - interested in preserving Philly’s deepest and - TopicsExpress



          

DAVID GOODIS - interested in preserving Philly’s deepest and darkest deep darkness, you should, by all means, check him out. Goodis was born in Philadelphia, and died in Philadelphia, with stopoffs in Hollywood and NYC in between. The desperate crime novels that Goodis wrote, though, exclusively concerned themselves with the lowest of lows: The down-on-their luck have a way of getting unluckier (or dead altogether), and the dead often somehow manage to get dead-er. Over a career span of over 15 novels, Goodis drew extensively on his experiences in the pre-and-post-WWII-era slums of Philly, from North Philly to Port Richmond to the rivers. What you’ll find in all of Goodis’s stuff is a dark, seductive kind of misery, to be sure, but in the bits that appealed to us most, there is also a very real window into our own Philadelphia ancestry.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:50:15 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015