(This recording contains explicit content.) Writer Russell Banks has described Richard Price as a “writer I hope my great-grandchildren will read, so they’ll know what it was like to be truly alive in the early 21^st century.” His novels, which include the bestsellers Clockers and The Wanderers, illuminate the lives of the post-industrial dispossessed in contemporary America. In his latest novel, Lush Life, Price tears the shiny veneer off the “new” New York to show readers the hidden cracks and violence beneath the glamour.