Richard Russo

Richard Russo won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls in 2002. His most recent book is Chances Are ...

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  1. My Father, the Fool

    I’d run out of sympathy for COVID skeptics. Then I remembered my father’s stiff neck.

    collage of vintage image of man in orange shirt and blue overalls; hand holding a glass bottle; man in jeans sitting on chrome swivel barstool
    Illustration by Paul Spella*
  2. Horseman

    “Oh, you’ll succeed just fine,” he told her. “You’ll just never be any good.”