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Richard Russo on Under the Falls, Hometown Secrets, and Writing a Thriller
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo joins Brian to discuss his propulsive new novel, Under the Falls.
Set in the fictional upstate New York town of Stone Mountain, the novel follows a famous musician returning home to a community shaped by old secrets, economic decline, the opioid epidemic, and a devastating accident. Russo shares how the story began as a television pilot, why he ultimately transformed it into a novel, and how he brought the momentum of a thriller to the deeply human, character-driven storytelling readers have come to love.
They also discuss the complicated pull of…
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