Light, I think, in comparison to this story. It was actuallyĪ part of my novel "Straight Man," which was an academic satire and rather RUSSO: Well, actually this story has a strange genesis. GROSS: THAT'S RICHARD RUSSO READING FROM HIS NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES "THE WHORE'S CHILD." WHY DID YOU WANT TO PLACE A NUN IN A WRITING CLASS TO GET THIS STORY STARTED? "Never you mind," sheĪssured me, adjusting her wimple for the journey home, "my whole life has beenĪ lie." "I'm sure you don't mean that," I told her.' `She patted my hand as you might the hand of a child. We actually prefer a well-told lie," I concluded, certain that this would Making things up, of substituting our own truth for the truth. The whole purpose of our enterprise is to become skilled in After all, she freelyĪdmitted that she'd never attempted to write a story before, which I explained
`After class I did explain why it would be highly unprofessional of me toĪllow her to remain in the advanced fiction workshop. The fall semester, though she gave no indication of this, or that she I'd gotten quite a lot of press on my recentīook, my first in over a decade, and my fleeting celebrity might haveĮxplained Sister Ursula's presence in my classroom the first chilly evening of Never more so than when the writer teaching it has recently published a book,Īs I had done the past spring. Fiction writingĬlasses are popular and invariably oversubscribed at most universities, and RICHARD RUSSO (Author, "The Whore's Child"): `She appeared in class thatįirst night and saddled herself at the very center of the seminar, despite theįact that her name did not appear on my computer printout. It's told from the point of view of a professor who was surprised toįind an elderly nun has gate-crashed his creative writing seminar. The title story in his new collection, "The Whore's Child," is also set in aĬollege. The final one was Colby College in Maine, where Russo's satirical novel "Straight Man" was inspired by his experiences His novels include "Mohawk," "The Risk Pool"Īnd "Nobody's Fool," which was adapted into a film starring Paul Newman. Those fictional towns are inspired by Gloversville,
York in small, working-class towns where there hasn't been much work since theįactories closed down. Russo also has a new collection of short storiesĬalled "The Whore's Child." Most of Russo's fiction is set in upstate New My guest, Richard Russo, won this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction for hisīest-selling novel "Empire Falls." It recently came out in paperback and is My thanks to Barbaraīogev for hosting the show while I was gone. Interview: Richard Russo discusses his writing
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