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Richard Russo

In conversation with Roy Eisenhardt

Monday, October 29, 2007  |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Author Richard Russo once remarked, "I've come to a point in my life where I think almost exclusively in narrative." His vivid, sprawling novel Empire Falls was praised for its narrative structure, which follows the unerring rhythms of a small, fictional mill town in Maine. Empire Falls received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 2005, the novel was adapted into a HBO mini-series staring Ed Harris, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman, and Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2005. Russo also adapted his earlier novel Nobody's Fool into film of the same name, and he has written several original screenplays. He is considered one of America's finest novelists, and The New Yorker observed, "There is a big, wry heart beating at the center of Russo's fiction." His latest novel, Bridge of Sighs, continues the author's examination of small-town life and the complex dynamics of the American family. Russo is also the author of Straight Man, The Risk Pool, and The Whore's Child, a collection of short stories.

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