![]() ![]() ![]() if I could," he says.īut along the way, Banks says, "I realized that I was equally fascinated, really for the first time in my life, by the old, patrician New England families. ![]() "I would shut off the refrigerator light. He wanted to understand the economic fears and anxieties they had passed down to him. True to form, Banks says that when he started researching his new novel, The Reserve, he intended it to be another exploration of his parents' world - working-class people in small-town America. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work.Īuthor Russell Banks is best known for gritty stories like The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction - tales about disaffected blue-collar workers, much like the people who defined his childhood. 'Cloudsplitter,' a Novel Look at John Brownīook Tour is a Web feature and podcast. ![]()
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