Joan Schenkar, author of the new biography of writer Patricia Highsmith, sits down with Speakeasy's Steve Kurutz to discuss her book, "The Talented Miss Highsmith." ...
No one wrote antiheroes like Patricia Highsmith. Take Tom Ripley, the “suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral” conman protagonist of her 1955 thriller The Talented Mr Ripley, who lies, cheats ...