Russell Banks

Novelist

air date: Feb 9, 2012

Russell Banks is an admired and accomplished American novelist whose credits include “Affliction” and “The Sweet Hereafter,” which were made into movies. His novel, “Lost Memory of Skin,” was published in 2011.

• Full Episode
• Why Banks writes
• The current events that inspired the story
• Having his novels made into movies
• The future of books and his next novel

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