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| RUSSELL BANKS & RICHARD RUSSO |
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| OHIO THEATER | 12.04.07 | 7:30 PM |
Russell Banks, award-winning screenplay writer and novelist of The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction and Continental Drift, will appear on stage with Richard Russo.
Mr. Russo is kindly filling in for Michael Ondaatje, who regrettably had to cancel his engagement.
You won't want to miss this great opportunity to see and hear them together as we continue the 2007-2008 season. The appearance of Mr. Banks and Mr. Russo is made possible through Cuyahoga County Public Library. |
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| RUSSELL BANKS |
Profile of Banks from his guest editorship of Ploughshares literary magazine. In spite of its 1993-1994 date, this profile goes deeper than the usual biographical sketch into Banks' formative years. |
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| cities of refuge |
Russell Banks is the president and Michael Ondaatje the secretary of Cities of Refuge, an organization that gives asylum to writers who have been persecuted and silenced in their own countries. Founded in 2003 by Banks, Salman Rushdie, and Wole Soyinka, it has arranged refuge for writers from China, Sierra Leone, Colombia, El Salvador, Swaziland and Iran. |
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| reel deal |
| Novelists Russell Banks and Michael Ondaatje pair up to discuss fiction and film news article about the authors' experiences with Hollywood, having their books made into films. |
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| Bookworm Audio Archives |
| Click on Russell Banks Angel on the Roof to hear an interview about his short stories from the nationally syndicated radio program, Bookworm. While much of his material comes from his abusive childhood, storytelling saved his life. Audio (28 minutes). |
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| The Salon Interview |
| Salon calls Banks "a writer with a gift for probing the dark truths of ordinary lives." Here, Banks talks about the characters who populate his stories. |
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| RICHARD RUSSO |
Author Richard Russo will appear on stage with Russell Banks (instead of Michael Ondaatje, who is unable to attend) and Plain Dealer Film Critic Clint O’Connor. Russo is the author of six novels including he Risk Pool, Nobody’s Fool, and Straight Man. His 2001 novel, Empire Falls, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002 and was also adapted into the acclaimed HBO mini-series, starring Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Helen Hunt.
His latest book Bridge of Sighs has just been released |
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| View Russo's life and novels, with updates on his most recent work, Bridge of Sighs, from Biography Resource Center. |
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| Richard Russo's Small-Town America |
National Public Radio interview
Russo talks about his newest novel, Bridge of Sighs (2007) |
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| Russo's Rules for a Good Life |
Advice to Graduates
As the father of a graduate as well as a Pulitzer prize-winning author, Russo addresses the Colby College class of 2004. |
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| Richard Russo's Working Arrangements |
Author Interview
Russo sits down at Powell's Books in Portland, OR, in 2001 to discuss Empire Falls, which the interviewer calls "the most ambitious novel of his career." |
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| empire falls |
| Ebert & Roeper give "Empire Falls," the 2005 HBO special based on Russo's novel, two thumbs up. Starring Ed Harris and Helen Hunt. |
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| nobody's fool |
| Siskel & Ebert also give "Nobody's Fool," the 1995 movie based on a novel by Russo, two thumbs up. Starring Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith. |
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