'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).
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From here we wander backwards towards:
Part 4 of 5 to follow.
Episode 10 - Brian Turner Part 3
Episode 09 - Brian Turner reads from My Life as a Foreign Country
Episode 08 - Brian Turner Part 2
Episode 07 - Brian Turner Part 1
Episode 06 - Brian Turner reads Here, Bullet
Episode 05 - Tomas Gonzalez: Part 2
Episode 04 - Tomas Gonzalez: Part 1
Episode 03 - Karen Joy Fowler: Part Two
Episode 02 - Karen Joy Fowler Reads from We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Episode 01 - Karen Joy Fowler: Part One
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