This Writing Life
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Sunday Feb 26, 2017
Episode 103 - Richard Russo: Part 3
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
'I have always been a meanderer. I have always loved digression.'
So says Richard Russo in part three of This Writing Life's conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. We approach the subject of comic meandering, initially as a way to explore through narrative ideas of luck, fate and free will. We digress through a peroration about self-made men, including President Donald Trump, and Brexit towards a deeper consideration of digression in Russo's new novel, Everybody's Fool, and his work as a whole. (A small warning: the final four minutes of this interview contain a spoiler alert about the end of Everybody's Fool).
Monday Feb 13, 2017
Episode 102 - Richard Russo: Part 2
Monday Feb 13, 2017
Monday Feb 13, 2017
Part two of This Writing Life's conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo begins with the idea of sequels: his new novel, Everybody's Fool is a follow-up to Russo's masterpiece, Nobody's Fool. What are the risks of continuing a story that is not just admired but loved? Did Russo intend to write a sequel to Donald 'Sully' Sullivan's adventures. What made him return in the first place? What was it like to revisit characters who were created over 20 years before?
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
Episode 101 - Richard Russo: Part 1
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
Tuesday Feb 07, 2017
Part 1 of This Writing Life's interview with the great American comic writer begins in media res. Russo is telling me about signing 9000 copies of his new novel, Everybody's Fool, in a warehouse in Maryland. Russo has recovered enough to discuss the idea of signed copies and what to do with his own personal archive.