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Conversations with Russell Banks (Paperback)
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Conversations with Russell Banks (Paperback)
Series: Literary Conversations Series
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If Russell Banks (b. 1940) says he doesn't ""think about [his]
reader at all when [he's] writing,"" he clearly enjoys talking with
his actual readers, whether they be students, writers, or
academics, delighting in the diversity of his audience and in the
""greater democratization of commentary"" provided by alternative
media. These conversations span a period of over thirty years, from
1976 with the publication of his first novel, Family Life, and his
first collection of short stories, to 2008 with The Reserve. Most
date from the late 1990s on, when the publication of
Pulitzer-finalist Cloudsplitter in conjunction with the
back-to-back release of film adaptations of his novels The Sweet
Hereafter and Affliction suddenly put Banks in the spotlight as
""Hollywood's Hottest New Property."" Banks has always believed
that the writer plays ""the role of the storyteller,"" fulfilling
very basic and universal human needs: ""to talk about the human
condition, to tell us something about ourselves."" Yet, for him,
writing is not a one-way process. It is an exchange where the key
is to tune in and listen-to the voices of the characters engaging
the writer's imagination and to the voices of the readers sharing
their own experiences of his books and of the world.
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