Left Bank Books Event – Richard Russo

Pulitzer-Prize winning author Richard Russo returns for the eighth time (thanks, Rick!), this time to celebrate a new collection of seven masterful new essays in the just-released Life and Art: Essays.

This brilliant collection considers how life and art inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves shape our understanding of the world around us. Rick reflects on the implacable fact that writers use people; explores why we tell stories in the first place; and suggests that what we don’t understand is the very thing that beckons to us. He details with heartbreaking vividness the terror of seeing his seven-year-old grandson in critical condition and he revisits Gloversville, the town that gave rise to the now-legendary fictional town of North Bath, where he confronts the specter of its richly populated past and its ghostly present.

From one of the great writers of our time, these essays are sharp, tender, intimate reflections on work, culture, love, and family. This will be a very special event.