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Jun 26, 2024 · “ Night of the Caiman, a novel by Diego Ameixeira is an affectionate homage to David Goodis and the hardboiled genre. It creates a metanarrative that becomes a meditation on the creative process of the author as well as telling a compelling noir story.
Jun 25, 2024 · Goodis presents us with a harsh world where everything has the aroma of defeat, but his characters have great dignity. Night of the Caiman, a novel by Diego Ameixeira is an affectionate homage to David Goodis and the hardboiled genre.
21 hours ago · Among the first major neo-noir films—the term often applied to films that consciously refer back to the classic noir tradition—was the French Tirez sur le pianiste (1960), directed by François Truffaut from a novel by one of the gloomiest of American noir fiction writers, David Goodis.
Following up his breakthrough semi-autobiographical feature debut, The 400 Blows, critic-cum-director Truffaut produced this radically reimagined cinematic adaptation of Philadelphian David Goodis’s pulp thriller Down There, starring popular chanteur Charles Aznavour as a barroom pianist who gets in over his head with the mob, and adding a ...
Jun 25, 2024 · A DEVIL FOR O'SHAUGNESSY Tolbert O'Shaughnessy has been working the short con for years. He's not very good at it he's a grifter with a conscience, a terrible combination. Just the thought of bilking old ladies out of their life savings sends him to the brandy bottle to ease his pain. But Miriam has a con that's worth too much money to ignore.
- Gil Brewer
Jun 30, 2024 · Founded in 1979 with seed money from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ford Foundation, the LOA has published more than 300 volumes by authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Saul Bellow, Frederick Douglass to Ursula K. Le Guin, including selected writing of several U.S. presidents.
Jun 26, 2024 · Chambers and Partners has ranked La Cava Jacobson & Goodis for its outstanding work in Litigation: Medical Malpractice Defense. In addition to recognizing the firm, Chambers and Partners has awarded Band 1 ranking to Louis J. La Cava and Jeffrey M. Goodis, and Band 2 ranking to David J. Nelson.
