Empire Falls | HBO Interview with Richard Russo
In the following interview, Russo discusses the writing process, the protagonist in Empire Falls, and the difficulties in translating the novel into a screenplay.
[Interviewer:] When did you start work on Empire Falls, the novel?
[Richard Russo:] Actually, I’ve been working on Empire Falls coming up on a decade now. The idea would have gone back at least five years before that. What usually happens is that when I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don’t write, or take notes. And I certainly don’t begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
Most of my novels begin with a character in some sort of dramatic situation...
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