Richard Russo
The Pulitzer Prize winner on his new novel Chances Are ..., our nearness to war and the truth about destiny
by LUCY FELDMAN
Jul 29, 2019
2 minutes
You often use your life to inspire your books. Are you in the three 66-year-old friends at the center of Chances Are ...? My not wanting to go out too far on a limb, my worrying sometimes if I’m playing things too safe—all of that I off-loaded onto Lincoln. Teddy loves the life of the mind, but he knows that it can also stultify the heart.
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