Richard Russo Criticism
- Introduction
- Principal Works
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Essays
- Fightin' an' Feudin'
- Sticking around with Dad
- Richard Russo's Tale of a Reckless Father and a Sensitive Son
- Life with Father and Son
- Quarterly Fiction Review
- Talk of the Town
- What It Takes to Endure the Lost, Stubborn Citizens of Richard Russo's Upstate New York
- The Strife of Bath
- Richard Russo: The Novelist Again Explores the Crucial Impact of Place on Individual Destinies
- The Last Resort
- Bonds Men
- Review of Nobody's Fool
- The Brains behind Nobody's Fool
- Department Wars
- A Novelist Finds Humor in Academic Woes
- Just Joking
- Review of Straight Man
- Pillorying Pretentious Professors
- Love Later On
- Review of Straight Man
- Benton in Clover, Coens in Bilge
- Review of Straight Man
- Grease Spots on the American Dream
- Through the Mill
- Review of Empire Falls
- Expecting Failure, Finding Faith
- Run-of-the-Mill? Not Empire Falls.
- Review of Empire Falls
- Down Home Folk
- Love, Loss, and Small-Town Economics
- Small-Town Dreams: Disappointment Haunts the Characters in Richard Russo's Depiction of Life in a Hapless Maine Backwater Town
- Surfing the Novel
- Review of Empire Falls
- Pulsating with Real Life
- You Still Can't Get There from Here
- Good Liars
- Further Reading