Russell Banks

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Banks is one of the greatest American fiction writers around, and it's truthfully always hard for us to talk to him without a smidgeon of nervousness.

174: Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Milestones

Birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones of all sorts...and how they mean something whether we want them to or not. A live show taped for our fifth anniversary, back in 2000, when we went on the road to Boston, New York, Chicago, and L.A....

228: You Are So Beautiful…To Me

Two stories about love, and what people mean when they use the word love. Or, looked at differently, two modern-day reinterpretations of the Frog Prince story. One concerns a pretty man falling in love with an unlikely woman. And an...