Me and Russell
Remembering Russell Banks, the original Adirondack writer, and a major influence.
A couple of weeks ago, the writer Russell Banks died. He was what I would call the original Adirondack writer. This was a kind of obsession for me when I was teaching at Paul Smith’s College, this question of what is an Adirondack writer. He lived in Keene and Saratoga. He was the kind of writer representing the nature of the Adirondack Park—an area of …
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