Richard Russo

First edition.

There's a sticker on it with a Richard Russo quote.

First

edition? Yeah.

It was a finalist for the Pulitzer, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Faulkner that year.

Richard Russo won the Pulitzer for Empire Falls instead, and, like, I'm not sure how I feel about that decision 25 years later.

That's a great nugget, Rebecca.

I didn't think to go who l- won the Pulitzer.

I think there's a way of reading The Corrections as being a correction to the way Richard Russo is writing about these old industrial towns-

Mm

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"A dead thing." The double and triple crosses, as well as the body count, mount in the intrigue, which subverted all my guesses about who would be left standing at the end.

This summer, Richard Russo brought out his first crime thriller.

Originally written as a TV script, "Under the Falls" is set in upstate New York in a place called Stone Mountain.

The plot, like that of Moreno-Garcia's novel, is indebted to noir, where the past is never really past.

The double and triple crosses, as well as the body count, mount in the intrigue, which subverted all my guesses about who would be left standing at the end.

This summer, Richard Russo brought out his first crime thriller.

Originally written as a TV script, Under The Falls is set in upstate New York in a place called Stone Mountain.

The plot, like that of Moreno Garcia's novel, is indebted to noir, where the past is never really past.

Shelley Fabares was 82 years old.

Still to come on the News Hour, we speak with the editor of a military newspaper who was fired after reporting on the conditions aboard the USS Lincoln, Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on South Carolina's Senate runoff, and Richard Russo discusses his new novel about the places we leave behind.

This is the PBS News Hour from the David M. Rubenstein Studio at WETA in Washington, headquarters of PBS News.

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Richard Russo has written 10 novels, won the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, and collaborated on screen adaptations and TV series based on his work.

Now his latest book has just been published, 40 years after his debut novel.