By — Molly Finnegan Molly Finnegan Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/extended-interview-russell-banks-on-lost-memory-of-skin Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Extended Interview: Russell Banks Discusses ‘Lost Memory of Skin’ Arts Sep 28, 2011 4:55 PM EDT In a squalid encampment under a causeway in an American city that sounds very much like Miami lives a group of outcasts: men convicted of sex crimes, restricted to staying at least 2,500 feet away from anyone under 18. That’s the unusual and charged setting for a new novel, “Lost Memory of Skin,” which explores some deep issues of American life rarely raised and rarely seen by most of us. Wednesday on the NewsHour, Russell Banks, a much-honored writer whose 17 works of fiction include “Continental Drift,” “The Sweet Hereafter,” and “Cloudsplitter,” talks to Jeffrey Brown about his latest work. You can watch the whole interview now, with additional material, here on Art Beat. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now By — Molly Finnegan Molly Finnegan
In a squalid encampment under a causeway in an American city that sounds very much like Miami lives a group of outcasts: men convicted of sex crimes, restricted to staying at least 2,500 feet away from anyone under 18. That’s the unusual and charged setting for a new novel, “Lost Memory of Skin,” which explores some deep issues of American life rarely raised and rarely seen by most of us. Wednesday on the NewsHour, Russell Banks, a much-honored writer whose 17 works of fiction include “Continental Drift,” “The Sweet Hereafter,” and “Cloudsplitter,” talks to Jeffrey Brown about his latest work. You can watch the whole interview now, with additional material, here on Art Beat. We're not going anywhere. Stand up for truly independent, trusted news that you can count on! Donate now