Conversations with Russell Banks (Literary Conversations Series) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1496834569 ISBN 13: 9781496834560

Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, 2021

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If Russell Banks (b. 1940) says he doesn't “think about [his] reader at all when [he's] writing,” he clearly enjoys talking with his actual readers, whether they be students, writers, or academics, delighting in the diversity of his audience and in the “greater democratization of commentary” provided by alternative media.

These conversations span a period of over thirty years, from 1976 with the publication of his first novel, Family Life, and his first collection of short stories, to 2008 with The Reserve. Most date from the late 1990s on, when the publication of Pulitzer-finalist Cloudsplitter in conjunction with the back-to-back release of film adaptations of his novels The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction suddenly put Banks in the spotlight as “Hollywood's Hottest New Property.”

Banks has always believed that the writer plays “the role of the storyteller,” fulfilling very basic and universal human needs: “to talk about the human condition, to tell us something about ourselves.” Yet, for him, writing is not a one-way process. It is an exchange where the key is to tune in and listen—to the voices of the characters engaging the writer's imagination and to the voices of the readers sharing their own experiences of his books and of the world.

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David Roche was formerly a global strategist for the American investment bank, Morgan Stanley and acclaimed for predicting the fall of Soviet Union and the Wall in the 1980s, He also developed a theory of New Monetarism predicting a credit crunch prior to the Global Financial Crash of 2008. And he wrote a book the crisis of democracy in the 21st century. He lives in Hong Kong.

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Over thirty years of interviews with the author of The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Cloudsplitter

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1496834569
• ISBN 13: 9781496834560
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
• Herausgeber: Roche David
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