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Dec 17, 2009 · A pivotal moment occurs late in the third act of Rudy Wurlitzer’s sardonic post-apocalyptic novel Quake, a morbid and surreal episode that unifies his third novel (after Nog in 1969 and Flats in ...
Sep 5, 2008 · Deadman was stolen? Rudy Wurlitzer interview. The infamous fur trapper scene from Deadman, with Iggy Pop and Billy Bob Thornton. A friend alerted me to this fascinating interview with Rudy Wurlitzer in Arthur Magazine where Wurlitzer and director Alex Cox reveal that Jim Jarmusch took many of the ideas for his 1995 film Deadman from a Wurlitzer ...
May 21, 2008 · “The horizon,” Rudy Wurlitzer says on the commentary track of the new Two-Lane Blacktop dvd, “is everything that the rear-view mirror isn’t. It’s the unknown.” Wurlitzer has been an itinerant traveler all of his life, between Los Angeles, New York, India, Greenland, Burma, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Nova Scotia. On and on.
May 1, 2013 · A scion of the Wurlitzer family (of jukebox/organ fame), Rudy Wurlitzer first attracted notice with the publication of the two short novels Nog (1969) and Flats (1970).). Blurbed by Thomas Pynchon (“The novel of bullshit is dead”), Nog follows the peregrinations of a narrator who changes not only location but identity on a daily basis, hauling an octopus along for th
Rudy Wurlitzer's debut novel is a subtly hilarious and existentially bleak road trip where identities dissolve and reform quicker than the passing landscapes. As Eric Davis puts it in his fine intro, Nog traces "the long journey from nowhere to no-one."
Rudy Wurlitzer. Writer: Candy Mountain. Rudy Wurlitzer was born on 3 January 1937 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Candy Mountain (1987), Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) and Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973).
The Countercultural Histories of Rudy Wurlitzer. From Written By 3, no. 11, November 1998. — J.R. Let me start this off with an update: a plug for Wurlitzer’s most recent novel, a sort of Buddhist Western that grew out of an unrealized script, and a truly haunting page-turner. — J.R.
