Books by Richard Russo
“This is a noir thriller in a near-future San Francisco, where a dissolute policeman is tracking down a serial killer. Cyberpunk and noir go hand in hand. They are often conflated. I think that’s probably because they both have a lot of rain and cities in them. I think the real parallel is that they’re both genres where the themes are often mistaken for the aesthetic and vice versa. Destroying Angel is actually one of the few moments where the centre of the Venn diagram is perfect: it is a brilliant piece of cyberpunk and it is undeniably noir.” Read more...
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
🏆 Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
In the small, post-industrial town of Empire Falls, Maine, a huge cast of characters are just trying to get by. There's Miles, the burger flipper at Empire Grill; David, Miles's addict brother; Tick, Miles's struggling teenage daughter; and Francine Whiting, the rich heiress who still tries to run the town. Russo's warmhearted portrait of blue collar America interweaves the lives of the town's inhabitants—before an unexpected twist shows the whole story in a new light.
Interviews where books by Richard Russo were recommended
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels
Every year, the Pulitzer Prize jury awards $15,000 to a work of “distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” We’ve compiled a guide to the books that have won this prize since the turn of the millennium.
The Best Cyberpunk Novels, recommended by Jared Shurin
Cyberpunk focuses on the near future, and on the impact of technology on human affairs, says Jared Shurin, anthologist and editor of The Big Book of Cyberpunk. He takes us from prescient writers of the past, up to those asking the same questions today: five stories from worlds that are plausible, challenging, and – above all – deeply human.
