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Richard Russo

Richard Russo’s works include Mohawk, The Risky Pool, Nobody’s Fool, Straight Man, Bridge of Sighs, Empire Falls – which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2002 – and most recently, Elsewhere: A Memoir. He is also the author of a collection of short stories, The Whore’s Child and other stories.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 111 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 111 padlock

High and Dry

Richard Russo

‘What I’d noticed, actually, was that none of the men on the island were missing fingers.’

Fiction | Issue 111
Fiction | Issue 111

Fishing with Wussy

Richard Russo

‘Until I was six I thought of my father the way I thought of ‘my heavenly father’, whose existence was a matter of record, but who was, practically speaking, absent and therefore irrelevant.’

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