The Pulitzer Prize-winning author returns to the characters that captured the hearts andimaginations of millions of readers in his beloved bestsellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody'sFool.

Explores the significant themes and techniques in Richard Russo’s seven novels, one memoir, and two short story collections, including the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Empire Falls. Kathleen Drowne first recounts…

A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody’s Fool now gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading…

Hank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to contend with when he learns that he must…

In the funniest serious novel … since Portnoy’s Complaint ( New York Times Book Review ), the bestselling author of Nobody’s Fool introduces Henry Deveraux–reluctant chairman of the English department…

Russo’s characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we’re familiar with from many of his novels.

Edited by award-winning, bestselling author Russo, this year’s collection boasts a satisfying chorus of 20 stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative ( Wall Street Journal ).

Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald 'Sully' Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is taken over by its much…