Richard Russo
The Pulitzer Prize winner on his new novel Chances Are ..., our nearness to war and the truth about destiny
You often use your life to inspire your books. Are you in the three 66-year-old friends at the center of Chances Are ...? My not wanting to go out too far on a limb, my worrying sometimes if I’m playing things too safe—all of that I off-loaded onto Lincoln. Teddy loves the life of the mind, but he knows that it can also stultify the heart.
