He crashed and returned to his parents’ home in Philadelphia, where he churned out novels and short stories, depicting the bleakness and darkness of lives in free fall. In the mid-1940’s he was in Hollywood as a screenwriter. After graduating from Temple University in 1938, Goodis moved to New York where he wrote advertising copy, radio scripts and thousands of words for pulp magazines. Noir at its blackest.ĭavid Goodis was Philadelphia’s noir prince. A statement of frustration, introducing a tale of gloom, depression and despair. So began the writing career of David Goodis. As his titles announce–Street of the Lost, Street of No Return, The Wounded and the Slain, Down There (the original title of Shoot the Piano Player)–he was a poet of the losers, transforming swift cut-rate melodramas into traumatic visions of failed lives.”-Geoffrey O’Brien, critic “He wrote of winos and bar-room piano players and small-time thieves in a vein of tortured lyricism all his own, whose very excesses seemed uniquely appropriate to the subject matter. Retracing the footsteps of the “poet of the losers”, we get a sympathetic feel for the themes and undercurrents found in his writings. David Goodis remains the enigmatic mysterious semi-famous pulp noir fiction writer active in Mid-Twentieth Century America.
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