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Barry Gifford\u2019s novels find a new generation of readers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Barry Gifford\u2019s novel Wild at Heart<\/em><\/a> turns twenty-five this year. It tells the story of Sailor and Lula, two young lovers on the lam, driving their \u201975 Bonneville convertible toward a better life but finding the violent reality of America instead. David Lynch saw something intoxicating in their pure, honest love. \u201cI wanted to go on that trip,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt was like looking into the Garden of Eden before things went bad.\u201d He asked Gifford to cowrite the screenplay. The film, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, won the Palme d\u2019Or at Cannes and launched Gifford\u2019s novel onto the best-seller list. Earlier this month, a sold-out audience crowded into a theater at the Anthology Film Archives to see an X-rated cut of Wild at Heart<\/em>. (It was the European edition, which features some ten extra seconds of sex deemed too explicit for the U.S. audiences of 1990.) Before the screening, Gifford read from his next novel, The Up-Down<\/em><\/a>, a continuation of the Sailor and Lula saga in which the couple\u2019s son, Pace, embarks on a spiritual quest for the mysterious fifth direction, the \u201cup-down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gifford has lived a life in miles instead of years. He\u2019s never in one place too long, but during moments of cultural upheaval, he has found himself, with an almost Forrest Gump\u2013like serendipity, in the right place at the right time. An autodidact, he\u2019s published poetry, fiction, memoirs, biographies, plays, and screenplays. He turned sixty-eight this year; The Up-Down<\/em> will be his twentieth novel and his fifty-seventh book. Next year, a new play of his will premiere in New York and a film he wrote will begin shooting in Brazil, with Willem Dafoe as the lead.<\/p>\n

At Sarabeth\u2019s in Tribeca, I sat down with Gifford for breakfast the morning after the screening. He joked about the youthful audience, many of whom were younger than the book. \u201cMillennials are discovering Wild at Heart<\/em> for the first time,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not quite sure they knew what they were in for.\u201d The Up-Down<\/em> is, Gifford claimed, the final chapter in the Sailor and Lula story, a story Gifford has told over the course of a quarter century. The collected Sailor and Lula saga<\/a> runs nearly eight hundred pages and comprises Gifford\u2019s magnum opus, full of recurring characters and settings that center around the titular couple. <\/p>\n

Throughout the seventies and eighties, Gifford had been working as a journalist and traveled the world reporting stories. He was under contract to write a book about deep-sea fishing and was staying in a Cape Fear hotel in North Carolina when he heard the voices of Sailor and Lula talking. He called his agent and told him to return the money for the fishing book, because he was onto something. He wanted to write a novel. \u201cMy agent almost had a heart attack,\u201d Gifford said. The Twin Peaks<\/em> producer Monty Montgomery\u2014perhaps better known as the Cowboy from Mulholland Drive<\/em>\u2014gave Lynch an early copy of the novel. Lynch optioned it, and a year later, they premiered the movie at Cannes.<\/p>\n

Decades later, Sailor and Lula\u2019s prelapsarian passion in Wild at Heart<\/em> resonates with new readers because Gifford doesn\u2019t bullshit; he doesn\u2019t shy away from the hysteria of young romance. Or its growing darkness, for that matter. The novel is a \u201cviolent satire,\u201d he told<\/a> Chicagoist<\/em> in 2010: \u201cWhat I wanted Sailor and Lula to represent were innocents. That they were perhaps naive, but innocents nevertheless. And here was all this shit raining down around them \u2026 It\u2019s a picaresque. They\u2019re just going down the road, just like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.\u201d Early on, Lula delivers her famous line\u2014\u201cThis whole world is wild at heart and weird on top\u201d\u2014as apt an observation now as it was twenty-five years ago.<\/p>\n

Gifford was born in 1946, in a hotel room in Chicago, to a racketeer father and a beauty-queen mother. They lived at times in hotels in South Florida, New Orleans, and Havana. Because they moved around so much, Gifford didn\u2019t get much formal education. He learned from late-night noir movies and the strange characters that passed through the hotel lobbies. His father died young, and he and his mother both had to find work. Later, he went to the University of Missouri on an athletic scholarship, but he promptly dropped out and went to Europe to try his hand as a musician and poet. Gifford traveled around for the next few years and then settled in London, amidst the psychedelic movement. It was 1965 and he was twenty-one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of stories from that time that many people find hard to believe,\u201d he said. He was friendly with Eric Clapton and the Kinks, even met Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon a few times. \u201cI tell these stories not to drop names but to say that the scene was small back then,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1967, he went to San Francisco during the Summer of Love and was an original writer for Rolling Stone<\/em>. He fell in with the Beat writers that were still around, including Allen Ginsberg, with whom he became close. They shared a love of Williams Carlos Williams, whose poem \u201cTo Elsie\u201d Gifford often cites when describing Sailor and Lula: \u201cThe pure products of America \/ go crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the course of the next few decades, he traveled, writing poetry and nonfiction and befriending outsider writers like Jim Harrison and Larry Brown. He published two novels, but they didn\u2019t sell. Then came Wild at Heart<\/em>, and his career took off. Ever since, he\u2019s lived in Europe, New Orleans, and New York, but keeps a home base in San Francisco, making a living from his work. When I asked him how he managed to go from an eighteen-year-old kid with a rucksack and thirty dollars in his pocket to a full-time writer, he told me an anecdote about Timothy Leary. (Another old friend, of course.) \u201cSomeone asked Tim what he did for money and he said, I just dip my hand into the stream.\u201d And he offered a word of advice: \u201cBe generous and don\u2019t talk down to people.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few days after the Wild at Heart <\/em>event, there was a screening of Lost Highway<\/em>, Gifford\u2019s other film collaboration with Lynch, at the Museum of the Moving Image. The audience was again packed with young people. I looked for Gifford after the screening, hoping to ask him why the texture and tone of Lost Highway<\/em> depart so radically from Wild at Heart<\/em>\u2014but he was nowhere to be found. I asked someone if they\u2019d seen him. \u201cHe left already,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s on the road first thing tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Bible has written for the <\/em>Oxford American, <\/em>Al Jazeera America,<\/em>\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books, <\/em>New York Tyrant,<\/em> and <\/em>ESPN: The Magazine,<\/em> among others. He\u2019s currently the senior staff writer at Nerve.com. His novel <\/em>Sophia will appear in 2015. He lives in New York City.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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