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	Richard Russo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949, in Johnstown, New York and raised in nearby Gloversville, New York) is an American novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
		Russo collaborated on the film Twilight with Robert Benton, who also adapted and directed Russo's Nobody's Fool in 1994.
		Russo wrote the teleplay for the HBO adaptation of Empire Falls, and the screenplay for the 2005 film Ice Harvest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Russo (184 words)

	Literal Mind. Empire Falls, Richard Russo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		RICHARD RUSSO speaks to a deep human longing for stories, as if our natural craving for meaning, for something beyond the particulars of our world, can be sated by stories about ourselves.
		Russo is perhaps the best storyteller writing today, in an age where most novelists seem to have lost the fine art of telling a good story.
		Russo's story, dipping into the past to illuminate the present, is Miles' search for the truth writ small -- in the details of his own life, in the history of Empire Falls.
	www.newsjobs.net /literalmind/content/review4.asp?book=85 (664 words)

	Richard Russo
		In a warmhearted novel of sweeping scope, Russo animates the dead-end small town of Empire Falls, Maine, long abandoned by the logging and textile industries that provided its citizens with their livelihood.
		Russo follows up his rollicking academic satire, Straight Man (1997), with a return to the blue-collar milieu featured in his first three novels and once again shows an unerring sense of the rhythms of small-town life, balancing his irreverent, mocking humor with unending empathy for his characters and their foibles.
		With essays by Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo and Elizabeth Strout, the 120 full-color photos of Maine in all its natural and cultural glory and nuance will make residents proud and potential visitors covetous.
	www.kenanderson.net /aroostook/richard_russo.html (768 words)

	Richard Russo
		Russo next drew on some of his experiences in academia for STRAIGHT MAN, which chronicles the exploits of an oddball professor at a third-rate university.
		Russo returned to the blue-collar characters and small-town setting of his earlier novels for the Pulitzer Prize-winning EMPIRE FALLS, this time exploring past and present relationships in a once-thriving town in Maine whose textile mill and shirt factory have gone bust.
		Russo is currently working on a new novel, the screenplay for “Empire Falls” (for Paul Newman and HBO), and other screen projects.
	writing.mccs.me.edu /Russo.htm (341 words)

	Review \| Empire Falls by Richard Russo
		As it is, Russo weaves the reader, quickly and tightly, into a community of personalities as easy to remember as your next door neighbor.
		Russo brings as much life and dignity to the minor characters in Empire Falls as he does to the key players: one of the reasons the book works on so many levels.
		Russo's dialog snaps and his descriptions resonate but it's his understanding of humanity and his ability to portray his characters with equal measures of dignity, grace and humor that quietly astounds.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/empirefalls.html (807 words)

	Richard Russo Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Richard Russo's first novel is a classic portrait of American small town life in the second half of the 20th...
		Richard Yates, one of the great unsung American writers, specialized in the anguish of ordinary people who are defeated by life.
		From Richard Russo, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his novel EMPIRE FALLS, a collection of stories about ordinary people--Russo's typical heartwarming oddballs--in situations that reveal them for who they really are.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Russo%2C%20Richard (1116 words)

	Failbetter.com \| Richard Russo
		Russo: At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don’t really think of myself as "writing humor." I’m simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.
		Russo: Both my daughters were in high school when I began Empire Falls, a novel that centers, at least in significant part, on the experience of high school.
		Russo: I’d been thinking about school violence since the incident in Paduka, however long ago that was, and I was right in the middle of writing Empire Falls when the events at Columbine took place.
	www.failbetter.com /04/Russo.htm (2886 words)

	Online NewsHour: Pulitzer Prize Winner: Fiction -- May 7, 2002
		RICHARD RUSSO: Well, that's kind of my, that's my forte, I think, is turning characters that are somehow beneath the radar...
		RICHARD RUSSO: No, that was one of the things that I was pleased to stumble across as...
		RICHARD RUSSO: Well, the best news, the best news after the prize itself, is that I was fortunate enough to have gotten about 75 or 100 pages into a new novel.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/jan-june02/russo_5-07.html (1378 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Richard Russo
		Novelist Richard Russo is renowned for his depiction of blue collar life in abandoned mill towns in upstate New York and northern New England, believed to be modeled after the city he grew up in, Gloversville, New York.
		"Russo's rueful understanding of the twisted skein of human relationships is as sharp as ever, and the dialogue throughout is barbed, pointed, and wryly humorous.
		"Richard Russo [is] a masterful storyteller with a mission: to chronicle with insight and compassion the day-to-day life of small-town AmericaA.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/russo_richard.html (2008 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Empire Falls" by Richard Russo
		Russo's Empire Falls is one of those small Maine towns that never recovered from the migration southward of the textile manufacturing jobs that created it.
		Russo takes a wry yet compassionate view of the kind of passivity that has landed Miles where he is. It's never easy, he suggests, to see the long view of your own life.
		But Russo, I think, would have us believe that the more important changes are internal, not geographic, and he makes his case without sentimentality or nostalgia, just compassion for his characters' foibles and deep insight into the startling, sometimes disturbing varieties of human nature.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2001/05/21/russo/index.html (1244 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Richard Russo
		Among his many other qualities, Richard Russo is our contemporary master of the fictional small town, and particularly of the small-town diner.
		When Russo's novel Nobody's Fool was turned into a movie in 1994, the diner that was the center of the best conversation almost disappeared.
		Richard Russo will be at the Ann Arbor Book Festival on Saturday, May 13, to discuss how fiction gets transformed into film.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0605.russo-review.html (387 words)

	Williston / Author Richard Russo's Visit Insightful
		Russo read from a short story, spoke briefly about the use of comedy in his work, and answered numerous audience questions about his novels and screenplays.
		Russo, who was recently back from attending the Emmy Awards as a nominee for his screenplay adaptation of Empire Falls, spent a portion of time speaking about the differences between screenplay and novel writing.
		Russo is the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man, and Empire Falls (which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize).
	www.williston.com /home/news_item.asp?id=85&zzSec=alumni&newsArea=&pointid=1185 (395 words)

	Amazon.ca: Straight Man: Books: Richard Russo,Sam Freed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In his earlier novels (e.g., Nobody's Fool, LJ 4/15/93), Russo captured with compassion and humor the lives of the people in small backwater towns; now he does the same for those who inhabit the groves of academe.
		Richard Russo's "Straight Man" is a marvelous novel in the tradition of "Lucky Jim," which is acknowledged in the nickname of Russo's protagonist, William Henry Devereaux, Jr.
		Russo is probably the best author we've got when it comes to creating people and all of his books are character driven.
	www.amazon.ca /Straight-Man-Richard-Russo/dp/073930691X (1428 words)

	Straight Man : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) - Richard Russo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Russo's latest novel is designed to provide intelligent entertainment and does precisely that....One would not expect to find [his protagonist, a] sly boat-rocker, on a television newscast flourishing a live goose and threatening a massacre of ducks.
		In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak.
		Russos protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt.
	www.biblio.com /books/73295379.html (641 words)

	Boston Globe Online / From the Archives / Books
		Russo, whose previous work captured the infinite shadows of rural New York, has cast this story in Railton, Pa., where the little college of West Central Pennsylvania University is bucking and heaving under the transitions of the modern age.
		As much as he's lauded for being a novelist of the old school, I expect Richard Russo is tired of being called big-hearted and old-fashioned, because the truth is that it's very hard to write this way this well.
		Russo's own great joke in ``Straight Man'' is to tip his hat to William of Occam, the medieval philosopher who eschewed realism, essentially suggesting that we shouldn't clutter up knowable reality with extraneous information.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/books/books97/richard_russo.htm (1359 words)

	Richard Russo : Empire Falls : Book Review
		Russo seems not to draw any final conclusions, after all, one answer would not fit all situations, but he does hint that this generational repetition may be the result of predetermined expectations as much as the convenience of habit.
		Russo gives her more of a present tense in her narrative, which amplifies the conflict of the past presiding over the present in the novel.
		Russo has taught at The University of Southern Illinois, The Iowa Writer’s Workshop and currently teaches writing at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/russo.htm (2066 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for "richard russo" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Russo Richard at Amazon Qualified orders over $25 ship free Millions of titles, new and used.
		Master of miniatures Richard Russo's short stories as deft, brilliant as his novels
		Tonight, the nation can see Maine on film ; The HBO production is a showcase for Maine and its residents, says author and screenwriter Richard Russo.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=%22richard+russo%22 (370 words)

	Buy.com - Empire Falls : Richard Russo : ISBN 0375726403
		In Richard Russo's lengthy fifth novel--this one set in a small Maine town--the Empire Grill provides the focus for the town's inhabitants, who include Miles Roby, who manages the place; Francine Whiting, the wealthy woman who owns it; Jimmy the cop; and Miles's large, eccentric, and often comic extended family.
		Richard Russo grew up in Gloversville, New York, the small, working-class town that has provided the setting for several of his books.
		Russo was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his novel EMPIRE FALLS.
	www.buy.com /prod/Empire_Falls/q/loc/106/30891332.html (2876 words)

	BookPage Interview May 2001: Richard Russo
		Although Richard Russo believes he is "essentially a comic novelist" and his big, lively fifth novel, Empire Falls, is often very, very funny, we don't get around to discussing humor until our long telephone conversation is almost over.
		Whiting, one of Russo's most sharply drawn characters, is a study in a sort of gloved malevolence which gives the book both a spiritual and a political cast.
		Of course, Russo is a novelist, not a politician or a theoretician, so his views get worked out through the messy, human interactions of his characters.
	www.bookpage.com /0105bp/richard_russo.html (1106 words)

	Richard Paul Russo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the author of Empire Falls, see Richard Russo.
		Richard Paul Russo is an American science fiction writer born in 1954.
		He attended the Clarion Workshop in 1983, his first story, Firebird Suite, appeared in Amazing Stories in 1981 and his first novel, Inner Eclipse, was in 1988.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Paul_Russo (168 words)

	Amazon.de: Nobody's Fool (Vintage Contemporaries): English Books: Richard Russo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The book, like most of Russo's fiction, peels back the layers of a small town in upstate New York, a town that somehow missed out on prosperity when the interstate drew travelers away, but Russo writes about the town and its inhabitants with humor and compassion.
		Russo clearly loves them, and that is the wonder of these two books.
		When I tried to describe Russo's writing to an author friend, she said that a good writer leads his readers by the hand, but she said it sounded in this case as if Russo were leading his readers by the soul.
	www.amazon.de /Nobodys-Fool-Richard-Russo/dp/0679753338 (1245 words)

	"The Whore's Child," by Richard Russo - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In his first book of short fiction, "The Whore's Child and Other Stories," Richard Russo doesn't stray from naturalism; the quotidian details are recognizable, and the epiphanies are kept on an appropriately modest scale.
		All the elements of middle-class despair are in place: dissolving marriages (seen from the points of view of children and parents), adultery, the encroachments and indignities of age, homes that are both havens and traps.
		My guesses as to why Russo avoids the pitfalls of naturalism keep coming back to the basics: He's more interested in communicating to his readers than in achieving a washed-out preciousness in his prose.
	dir.salon.com /books/review/2002/08/01/russo/index.html (677 words)

	Amazon.com: Mohawk: Books: Richard Russo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard Russo has become one of my favorite novelists, and Mohawk is one of the best books I've read this summer.
		We need Russo much like we need Annie Proulx; in a go-go era of skyrocketing real estate and money everywhere, the wealth in this country is not equally distributed and those towns you pass by on the highways all have stories of their own, stories that people would like to forget about.
		Russo sets the two parts of "Mohawk" in 1966 and 1972 but doesn't play up the era too much except for a few scattered references and the appearance of a draft dodger.
	www.amazon.com /Mohawk-Richard-Russo/dp/0679753826 (2547 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Richard Russo - Books: Meet the Writers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Known for his sly humor and his touchingly real characters, Richard Russo’s novels about the perennial odd man out are notable for both their sharp turns of phrase and for their nuance.
		Russo also wrote an original TV movie about a battle between a drive-in theater developer and a funeral home owner, Flamingo Rising.
		Writing with his trademark perspicacity and humor, Russo tells the story of a nun who sets out to tell her story in a creative writing class, a Hollywood filmmaker's realization about his dead wife, a mother's flight to "freedom" with her son, and the complexities of life as observed by a ten-year-old.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?z=y&vcqty=1&cid=968838 (342 words)

	Richard Russo
		Russo is known for his depiction of blue-collar life in depressed Northeastern towns and the struggles of emotionally scarred sons coming to terms with absent or abusive father figures.
		Richard Russo is well known for his sly humor and his touchingly real characters.
		Richard Russo is now living in Maine with his wife Barbara Marie and two children Emily and Kate.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Russo__Richard.html (812 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Richard Russo
		Richard Russo: As is the case with most people, Miles' dreams are based upon something he didn't do.
		Someone like Richard Price comes to mind, a really good writer of both novels and screenplays, but for a long time he didn't write novels because he was writing a lot of screenplays.
		Russo: Screenplays, for the most part, are juggernauts, in that as soon as you sign to write one, you pretty much have to devote yourself to it.
	www.powells.com /authors/russo.html (3844 words)

	The BEATRICE Interview: 1997
		Richard Russo's third novel, Nobody's Fool, was adapted for the screen by Robert Benton, one of those rare movie versions of a book that retains the full sophistication and subtlety of the original material.
		Russo was invited to do some work on the screenplay during production; he and Benton found that they worked together so well that they immediately launched into an original project, currently titled Magic Hour, scheduled for release in the fall of 1997.
		Russo lays out the dogpiling of Hank's personal and professional crises with his characteristic humor, creating situations that approach outrageousness without ever losing sight of reality and slipping into farce.
	www.beatrice.com /interviews/russo (1796 words)

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