notes Chapter 1—Understanding Richard Russo 1. Birnbaum, “Richard Russo.” 2. Paul Grondahl, “Russo Returns to Upstate Pride and Paradox,” Albany (N.Y.) Times Union, September 30, 2007, http://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/russo-returns -to-upstate-pride-and-paradox/1135/ (accessed May 27, 2013). 3. Russo, “High and Dry,” 215. 4. Ibid., 229. 5. Ibid., 207. 6. Ibid., 213. 7. Russo, Elsewhere, 209. 8. Russo, “High and Dry,” 222. 9. James Richard Russo, “The Craft of Charles Brockden Brown’s Fiction” (Ph.D. diss., University of Arizona, 1979). 10. Edmonds et al., “A Conversation,” 91. 11. Russo, Elsewhere, 87. 12. John Marshall, “Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Russo Is an Open Book about His Work,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 11, 2008, http://www.seattlepi.com/ default/article/Pulitzer-Prize-winner-Richard-Russo-is-an-open-1284912.php (accessed May 27, 2013). 13. Erin McGraw, “Surface Tension,” Southern Review 40:2 (Spring 2004): 384– 401. 14. Rosen, “New Russo Collaboration.” 15. Ibid. 16. Edmonds et al., “A Conversation,” 93. 17. Ibid., 92. 18. Russo, “Introduction: Secret Hearts,” xx. 19. Birnbaum, “Richard Russo.” 20. “Meet the Writers: Richard Russo,” BarnesandNoble.com, Spring 2005, http:// www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=968838 (accessed May 27, 2013). 21. Dollacker, “An Interview with Richard Russo: Part 1.” 22. “Meet the Writers.” 23. Russo, “In Defense of Omniscience,” 17. 24. Ibid., 16. 25. Dollacker, “An Interview with Richard Russo: Part 1.” 26. Ibid. 128 notes to pages 16–57 27. “Interview with Richard Russo,” Failbetter.com. 28. Ibid. 29. Justin Mason, “Downtrodden Gloversville an Inspiration to Author Richard Russo,” Schenectady (N.Y.) Daily Gazette, February 24, 2012, http://www.dailygazette .com/news/2012/feb/24/0224_russo/ (accessed May 27, 2013). Chapter 2—Mohawk 1. Smith, “Richard Russo: The Novelist Again,” 43. 2. Dollacker, “An Interview with Richard Russo: Part 1.” 3. “Mohawk,” Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 1986, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/ book-reviews/richard-russo/mohawk/#review (accessed May 27, 2013). 4. Greg Johnson, “In Short: Fiction,” New York Times, October 12, 1986, http:// www.nytimes.com/books/01/06/24/specials/russo-mohawk.html (accessed May 27, 2013). 5. Such critics include but are not limited to Michiko Kakutani and Greg Johnson, both of the New York Times, and David Montrose of the Times Literary Supplement. 6. Michiko Kakutani, “Books of the Times: Mohawk,” New York Times, October 15, 1986, C24. Chapter 3—The Risk Pool 1. Michiko Kakutani, “Growing Up ‘Pretty Near the Edge,’” New York Times, November 2, 1988, C25. 2. Jack Sullivan, “‘Things Get Bad,’ Says Dad,” New York Times Book Review, December 18, 1988, 14. 3. “Review,” Library Journal, November 15, 1988, 86. 4. Sullivan, “Things Get Bad,” 14. Chapter 4—Nobody’s Fool 1. Smith, “Richard Russo: The Novelist Again,” 43. 2. Ibid. 3. Francine Prose, “Small Town Smart Alecks,” New York Times, June 20, 1993, BR13. 4. John Skow, “Boarded Up Glocca Morra,” Time 141:22 (May 31, 1993): 66. 5. Steve Brzezinski, review of Nobody’s Fool, Antioch Review 52:1 (Winter 1994): 173. 6. Zachary Leader, “Pretty, Green Graves,” Times Literary Supplement 4709 (July 2, 1993): 23. 7. Smith, “Richard Russo: The Novelist Again,” 43. 8. Edmonds et al., “A Conversation,” 96. Chapter 5—Straight Man 1. Russo, “How ‘I’ Moved Heaven and Earth,” 85. 2. Weich, “Richard Russo’s Working Arrangements.” 3. Leuschner, “Body Damage,” 345. 4. Elaine Showalter, Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 88. 5. Tom De Haven, “Screwball U,” review of Straight Man by Richard Russo, New York Times, July 6, 1997, BR10. [3.145.60.149] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 20:44 GMT) notes to pages 58–79 129 6. Review of Straight Man by Richard Russo, Publishers Weekly, May 12, 1997, 56. 7. Ron Charles, “Pillorying Pretentious Professors,” Christian Science Monitor 89:218 (1997): 14. 8. Rita D. Jacobs, review of Straight Man by Richard Russo, World Literature Today 72:4 (Autumn 1998): 832–33. 9. Michael Lee, “Russo Blends a Deft Comic Touch with Heavy Philosophical Lifting,” National Catholic Reporter, September 26, 1997, 33. 10. Frumkes, “A Conversation with Richard Russo.” 11. The episode in the novel that includes threatening to kill “a duck a day” is based on a real conversation Russo had with a dean at Penn State–Altoona when Russo was a faculty member there. 12. Leuschner, “Body Damage,” 340. 13. Cirisi, “Straight Men and Other Ordinary Joes,” 44. 14. Costa, Review of Straight Man, 746. 15...