Episode 101 - Richard Russo: Part 1

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. ----more----This idea of looking back leads us, neatly enough to, Everbody's Fool and the challenge of sequels: the book continues the story of Russo's masterpiece (to my mind) Nobody's Fool from 1993. From here we talked:

• what had Russo forgotten about his charaters, and what he hadn't
• what had changed since 1993?
• timing, iPhones and when is Everybody's Fool set?
• time and writing: what's the deal?

Part 2 of several to follow.