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Russell Banks, praised author of 'Cloudsplitter,' dies at 82
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRussell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who rooted such novels as “Affliction” and “The Sweet...
Russell Banks, prolific ‘Cloudsplitter’ and ‘Affliction’ author, dead at 82
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRussell Banks, the prolific author of more than a dozen novels including “Cloudsplitter” and “Affliction,” died at age 82, his editor said. His death in upstate New York on Saturday followed ...
Celebrating Russell Banks on John Brown Day 2023
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 19—LAKE PLACID — John Brown Day 2023 was an echo of John Brown Day 1999. This year's celebration was dedicated to the late Russell Banks, an award-winning author and doer of good works whose ...
Russell Banks found the elusive heart of Trumpism in a fictional New York town
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn 'American Spirits,' the late author Russell Banks returns to rural New York to explore the ego, territorialism and violence that define our society.
North Country residents remember Russell Banks
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 10—KEENE — Russell Banks, a summer resident of Keene, died from cancer this past Saturday at his home in Saratoga Springs. He was 82. The award-winning author and twice Pulitzer Prize nominee ...
Review: In Russell Banks' new novel, Florida is our bellwether (and not in a good way)
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“Florida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world’s detritus,” writes Russell Banks in his 14th novel, “The Magic Kingdom.” “It’s where you go when your prospects elsewhere ...
Appreciation: Russell Banks was a giant rooting for the underdogs
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRussell Banks, who has died at age 82, carried on the legacy of great American novelists probing big themes through the small lives of heroic underdogs.
Noted Adirondacks author Russell Banks dies at 82
Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJan. 9—SARATOGA SPRINGS — Noted Adirondacks author Russell Banks, who holds honorary doctorate degrees from three north country colleges, has died at age 82. The New York Times reported that ...
‘Oh, Canada’ Review: Paul Schrader Separates the Art From the Artist in Prismatic Portrait of a...
Variety via Yahoo News· 1 week agoStraying from the hotheaded “Taxi Driver” style that has dominated much of his career, Paul Schrader...
Paul Schrader felt death closing in, so he made a movie about it
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 week agoCANNES, France (AP) — After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a...
