The destiny thief essays on writing, writers and life
In these nine essays, Richard Russo provides insight into his life as a writer, teacher, friend, and reader. From a commencement speech he gave at Colby College, to the story of how an oddly placed toilet made him reevaluate the purpose of humor in art and life, to a comprehensive analysis of Mark T...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The destiny thief
- The gravestone and the commode (The Sewanee review, summer 2017)
- Getting good (The Sewanee review, fall 2017)
- Address to the 2004 graduates of Colby College
- The pickwick papers (introduction to Modern Library Classics edition, 2003)
- Imagining Jenny (afterword to Jennifer Boylan's She's not there: a life in two genders, 2003)
- What frogs think: a defense of omniscience
- Mark twain's nonfiction (introduction to volume 2, Everyman's Library edition, 2016)
- The boss in Bulgaria.
