By — Anna Sillers Anna Sillers Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/writing-process-behind-richard-prices-newest-book Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Richard Price breaks down his writing process Arts Mar 2, 2015 6:54 PM EDT Richard Price’s most recent book “The Whites,” centers around the criminals who get away with awful crimes and become obsessions for the police first assigned to their case. Writing under his pseudonym Harry Brandt, Price names these criminals after the great white whale in Moby Dick. Price, who has written eight books as well as for the TV show “The Wire,” talks with Jeffrey Brown about the four-year writing process behind “The Whites,” as well as why writing a novel has become more challenging for Price over time and how technology has altered attitudes toward the police. “It’s so easy to make it global, because everybody is a news reporter as long as you have a cell phone,” Price said. Below, Price reads a passage from “The Whites”: By — Anna Sillers Anna Sillers
Richard Price’s most recent book “The Whites,” centers around the criminals who get away with awful crimes and become obsessions for the police first assigned to their case. Writing under his pseudonym Harry Brandt, Price names these criminals after the great white whale in Moby Dick. Price, who has written eight books as well as for the TV show “The Wire,” talks with Jeffrey Brown about the four-year writing process behind “The Whites,” as well as why writing a novel has become more challenging for Price over time and how technology has altered attitudes toward the police. “It’s so easy to make it global, because everybody is a news reporter as long as you have a cell phone,” Price said. Below, Price reads a passage from “The Whites”: