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Straight Man (New York: Random House, 1997) is a novel by American writer Richard Russo set at the fictional West Central Pennsylvania University in Railton, Pennsylvania.A campus novel, the book was inspired by Russo's experiences teaching at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Southern Connecticut State University, and Penn State Altoona.
Somebody’s Fool is a 2023 novel by American author Richard Russo. It is the third installment in Russo's "North Bath Trilogy", following Nobody’s Fool (1993) and Everybody’s Fool (2016). The book is set in the fictional town of North Bath in Upstate New York, and it continues the storylines of characters from the previous books. Russo ...
Richard Russo (born July 15, 1949) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and teacher. In 2002, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his novel Empire Falls . [ 1 ] Several of his works have been adapted into television series and movies.
The upstate town of North Bath, New York, has been annexed by its well-to-do neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Luck, then, and why some people have it and others don’t, endures as a favorite Russo theme.
Based on the novel by Richard Russo, Straight Man is a “mid-life crisis tale” that takes place on a fictional college campus in the Pennsylvania Rust Belt. Odenkirk will play William Henry ...
Writing for The New York Times, Francine Prose praised the dialogue in Nobody's Fool and Russo's exploration of human character. [1] She also liked the many themes covered in the novel, including responsibility, community, and forgiveness. Prose, however, criticized the book as too long and as containing an overabundance of characters and subplots.
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Lucky Hank is an American comedy-drama [1] [2] television series developed by Paul Lieberstein and Aaron Zelman based on the 1997 novel Straight Man by Richard Russo. Starring Bob Odenkirk, the series premiered on March 19, 2023, on AMC. In December 2023, the series was canceled after one season.