I suppose if the late Stan Brakhage could try experiments with film, it is possible for me to try an experiment with blog entries. I have no idea if people will like this idea or disdain it, but here it goes:
Starting with Barry Gifford's crime novel "Wild at Heart," which was made into a film by David Lynch with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern in 1990, I am going to use the first and last sentences of six of my favorite novels.
The idea here is that like great filmmakers, great novelists start and conclude their works with very vivid, stark images.
Here is the first sentence from the novel, keep in mind that Lula was the character played quite well by Dern:
"Lula and her friend Beany Thorn sat at a table in the Raindrop Club drinking rum Co-Colas while watching and listening to a white blues band called The Bleach Boys."
And, now the last sentence (well, ok_ technically, two sentences) of the 159-page novel. He refers to Sailor, which was the character played by Cage:
"He picked up his suitcase, kissed Lula lightly on the lips and walked away. She let him go."
The film version of "Wild at Heart" was rumored to be showing for a midnight screening this weekend in the race-track town of Martinsville, Va., but I could not get a firm confimation on this.
But, if you want to see Barry Gifford (well, this might be difficult from Roanoke or Greensboro), he will be at Moe's Books in Berkeley, Calif., on Aug. 20. Phone 510-849-2087. The author will be at Moe's for a public reading.
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