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Richard Russo, Photo: Elena Seibert
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Wednesday Sep 23, 2009 (6pm)
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In Richard Russo's autobiographically tinged latest novel, That Old Cape Magic, Jack Griffin is a Hollywood exile and English professor coming to terms with a failing marriage, his to-be-wed daughter, and the loss of his bellicose parents. Gone are the boom-and-bust hamlets and working class burdens of Russo's most celebrated novels (Nobody's Fool, the Pulitzer-winning Empire Falls), but Cape draws a lot of empathy for its protagonist — not to mention quite a few belly laughs. Middle-age crises may not seem the stuff of knee-slappers, but Russo still manages to find the humor in Griffin's losing battle against misanthropy. Tonight he talks with WFMT's Victoria Lautman.
