I just finished reading Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 masterpiece, The Price of Salt. How is it I failed to read this before now? Highsmith initially published this same-sex love story as Claire Morgan, then republished it many years later under her own name, but with the… Read More
I’ve been reading my way through that series of books by Patricia Highsmith known as the Ripliad – 5 novels all featuring the Tom Ripley character, written over a span of many years. It’s easy to see why she continued to return to Ripley. He’s… Read More
I’m not sure how, in close to 58 years on the planet, I failed to read any of Patricia Highsmith’s novels. Recently we watched the Wim Wenders film, The American Friend, based on Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game, and we loved it. Soon after, we watched the… Read More
