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Jul 15, 2024 | 
eastbaytimes.com | Richard Russo
Today is Monday, July 15, the 197th day of 2024. There are 169 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History:On July 15, 1799, the Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts, was found at Fort Julien in the Nile Delta during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. Also on this date:In 1834, the Spanish Inquisition was abolished more than 350 years after its creation. In 1870, Georgia became the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
wob.com | Richard Russo
HomeFiction BooksModern FictionCondition - Very Good5 in stockVery Good£5.30Good£4.60Well Read£4.30SummaryHank Devereaux, a fifty-year-old, one-time novelist now serving as temporary chair of the English department, has more than a mid-life crisis to contend with when he learns that he must cull 20 per cent of his department to meet budget.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
likewise.com | Terry Pratchett |Maria Semple |Richard Russo |John Scalzi
Suggested byPix and upvoted by 2 othersGood Omensby Terry PratchettLiked by 13.4KPixGood Omens is fast-paced and full of wit and humor. It is authored by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, both renowned for their comedy and fantasy works. It would quickly pull readers out of a reading slump. To add a comment, download the Likewise app from your device's app store.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
mccookgazette.com | Richard Russo
The four-team College Football Playoff is going out with the most crowded field of contenders and the most consequential championship weekend in the 10-year history of the system. Eight teams have at least a glimmer of hope to make the field. Yes, that means you, too, Ohio State. The penultimate CFP rankings will be released Tuesday night. The field for the playoff will be announced Sunday. Determining which teams are CFP contenders heading into championship weekend is a bit subjective.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
newscentermaine.com | Richard Russo
PORTLAND, Maine — After running into Richard Russo on the streets of Portland a year or two ago, I asked him what he’d been up to lately. “Still scribbling,” he said with a laugh. The effort paid off, and Russo is now out with his latest novel, “Somebody’s Fool,” the third volume in a trilogy that began three decades ago with the acclaimed “Nobody’s Fool.” And, yes, the final product was actually created by scribbling.
“I love to write in longhand,” he said.
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Jul 28, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Richard Russo
The summer of 2023 already has produced one novel written by a Pulitzer Prize winner whose first name is Richard that brings to a close a series featuring a distinctive recurring character. Now, with Richard Russo’s return to the downtrodden upstate New York town of North Bath, he does the same with the trilogy he began in 1993. Unlike Richard Ford’s very much alive Frank Bascombe, Russo’s Donald “Sully” Sullivan is gone, but his spirit dominates this wry, compassionate concluding chapter.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Richard Russo
This audiobook unites two consummate professionals: author Richard Russo and narrator Mark Bramhall. Russo is at his storytelling best here, returning to the North Bath community of NOBODY'S FOOL and EVERYBODY'S FOOL. A broad array of characters interacts credibly, thanks to Bramhall's strong performance.
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
newspub.live | Somebody’S Fool |Richard Russo |Alfred A. Knopf
Ruth seeks to get over her adulterous romance with Sully. Peter’s cool reserve thaws, nudging the door to intimacy. Doug is the novel’s moral compass; Russo digs deep into the cop’s “seemingly congenital inability to surrender hope.” He and Charice pause their relationship while she maneuvers through fresh duties and animosity in her force. He does his utmost to support her, but fails to grasp the challenges she faces each day. He clings to the possibility they can settle down and become a family.
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Hamilton Cain |Somebody’S Fool |Richard Russo
FictionLike “Nobody’s Fool” and “Everybody’s Fool,” “Somebody’s Fool” is set in a fictional town with lots of problems. Credit...Tristan Spinski for The New York TimesSOMEBODY’S FOOL, by Richard RussoWelcome back to North Bath, scrappy sibling to the larger, wealthier Schuyler Springs, down the road in woodsy upstate New York.
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Jul 20, 2023 | 
startribune.com | Richard Russo
One of the great knuckleheads in recent American fiction lies dead early in Richard Russo's new novel. Will Donald "Sully" Sullivan's hardscrabble town ever be the same? Readers met the incurably sarcastic, erratically employed, occasionally sober Sully in Russo's great 1993 comic novel "Nobody's Fool." The aging barfly's decline mirrored that of his hometown, where, as Russo noted in the sequel "Everybody's Fool," once-busy factories had been colonized by rats.
