0 ratings | 0 reviews | avg rating:0.0

Richard Russo’s Followers (4,411)

Richard’s Bookshelves

read (6)
currently-reading (0)
to-read (0)

Richard’s Friends

Richard hasn't connected with his friends on Goodreads, yet.

Richard Russo

Goodreads Author

Born

in Johnstown, New York, The United States

Website

http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/russo/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Member Since

May 2016

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/RichardRusso

edit data

RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.

Learn more
Ask the Author

Richard Russo is currently not accepting new questions.

Popular Answered Questions

Dear Mr. Russo, So excited to read this! I had written in a previous review that I love your writing so muchI would even read your grocery lists. Do you have a favorite among your own novels? I still laugh out loud when I read Straight Man...especially the part about getting the dog. Hilarious! Thank you for enriching my life. Diane

Richard Russo Dear Diane--

I have special affection for Straight Man, too, but mostly because it was by far the easiest of all my novels to write. I'd been storing u…moreDear Diane--

I have special affection for Straight Man, too, but mostly because it was by far the easiest of all my novels to write. I'd been storing up academic lunacy stories for a good decade and they all just gushed out. As to my other novels, couple stand out not so much because of what's in them as where I was when I wrote them: The Risk Pool written as my father was dying, Empire Falls when my daughters were teenagers and I was terrified I wouldn't be able to protect them from the world's cruelties.(less)

flag

like
Comment

I loved Empire Falls and Straight Man; you capture so much in the way of the humor and humanity of your characters' inner thoughts and the closeness (and intense, familiar realness) of the towns/communities they inhabit. What do you do, if anything, to prepare yourself for writing? Any habits? Do you outline or discovery-write your plots and characterizations? Do you do world-building beforehand or as you go along?

Richard Russo I don't do much to prepare. No outline, little research. I'm not sure what you mean by world building, but I'm pretty sure I don't do it, at least not…moreI don't do much to prepare. No outline, little research. I'm not sure what you mean by world building, but I'm pretty sure I don't do it, at least not as preparation for writing. Mostly I just try to go slow, see and hear everything I'd see and hear if it was really happening and I was really there. Small bites. Chew thoroughly. Repeat.(less)

flag

like
Comment

See all 8 answers from Richard Russo…

Combine Editions
Richard Russo’s books

Average rating: 3.92 · 302,787 ratings · 25,215 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors

	Empire Falls 3.94 avg rating — 121,904 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nobody's Fool (Sully #1) 4.11 avg rating — 30,247 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Straight Man 4.01 avg rating — 28,798 ratings — published 1997 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bridge of Sighs 3.80 avg rating — 24,398 ratings — published 2007 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chances Are... 3.77 avg rating — 20,378 ratings — published 2019 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everybody's Fool (Sully #2) 4.11 avg rating — 16,079 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo (Goodreads Author), Arthur Morey (narrator) 3.35 avg rating — 18,014 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elsewhere 3.77 avg rating — 8,062 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Risk Pool 4.07 avg rating — 7,284 ratings — published 1988 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Somebody's Fool 4.28 avg rating — 5,910 ratings — published 2023 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Richard Russo…

Series by Richard Russo

North Bath (3 books)
by

Richard Russo (Goodreads Author)

4.13 avg rating — 52,233 ratings

Related News

Interview with Richard Russo

In his first memoir, Elsewhere, the novelist writes about how his vivacious but volatile mother and his small hometown of Gloversville have shaped...

Polls

Best Fiction

The Help

1131 votes 17.3%

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)

658 votes 10.0%

Her Fearful Symmetry

323 votes 4.9%

Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)

318 votes 4.9%

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

310 votes 4.7%

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)

295 votes 4.5%

The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)

275 votes 4.2%

Fool

235 votes 3.6%

The Magicians (The Magicians #1)

229 votes 3.5%

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

226 votes 3.4%

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

224 votes 3.4%

Juliet, Naked

207 votes 3.2%

Cutting for Stone

190 votes 2.9%

The Little Stranger

147 votes 2.2%

South of Broad

144 votes 2.2%

The Story Sisters

141 votes 2.2%

Pygmy

140 votes 2.1%

Let the Great World Spin

135 votes 2.1%

This is Where I Leave You

132 votes 2.0%

Little Bee

126 votes 1.9%

Brooklyn

119 votes 1.8%

Drood

107 votes 1.6%

The Children's Book

107 votes 1.6%

A Reliable Wife

103 votes 1.6%

A Gate at the Stairs

97 votes 1.5%

The Weight of Silence

91 votes 1.4%

That Old Cape Magic

78 votes 1.2%

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

70 votes 1.1%

Await Your Reply

70 votes 1.1%

The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

62 votes 0.9%

The School of Essential Ingredients

61 votes 0.9%

6551 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Glens Falls (NY) ...: Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009 - What are U doing today?	13	22	Feb 24, 2009 08:51PM
Glens Falls (NY) ...: Have U ever imagined a specific actor in the part of a novel's protagonist?	8	22	Mar 10, 2009 08:57AM
Glens Falls (NY) ...: April 2009: Glens Falls Senior Center Book Club	1	12	Mar 25, 2009 07:26AM
Glens Falls (NY) ...: What are U reading these days? (Part Four) (begun 2/18/09)	207	204	Apr 03, 2009 09:11AM
Glens Falls (NY) ...: Red Fox Books and RICHARD RUSSO !	2	20	Jun 20, 2009 11:33AM
College Students! : Summer Challenge--Official Record of Points	42	796	Aug 31, 2009 08:41PM
The Seasonal Read...: Math Tasks	77	399	Oct 02, 2009 04:19PM
The Seasonal Read...: FALL CHALLENGE 2009 COMPLETED TASKS	3942	2744	Nov 30, 2009 09:01PM

More…

Richard Russo’s Followers (4,411)

Add New
Videos

Richard’s Bookshelves

Richard’s Friends

Richard Russo

Goodreads Author

Learn more
Ask the Author

Popular Answered Questions

Combine Editions
Richard Russo’s books

Series by Richard Russo

Related News

Polls

Topics Mentioning This Author

Richard’s Friend Comments

Richard Russo’s Followers (4,411)

Add NewVideos

Richard’s Bookshelves

Richard’s Friends

Richard Russo

Goodreads Author

Learn moreAsk the Author

Popular Answered Questions

Combine EditionsRichard Russo’s books

Series by Richard Russo

Related News

Polls

Topics Mentioning This Author

Richard’s Friend Comments

Add New
Videos

Learn more
Ask the Author

Combine Editions
Richard Russo’s books