Arts Jan 08 Russell Banks, award-winning author of ‘Cloudsplitter,’ dies at 82 Russell Banks, an award-winning fiction writer who imagined the dreams and downfalls of everyone from modern blue-collar workers to the radical abolitionist John Brown in “Cloudsplitter," has died. He was 82. By Hillel Italie, Associated Press
Arts Aug 30 Watch 3:44 For creating travel memories, Russell Banks prefers words to images Novelist and poet Russell Banks used to feel guilty about not taking pictures to document his trips. Now, he doesn't even bring a camera with him, believing that visually recording an experience would effectively remove him from it. In contrast,… By PBS News Hour
Arts Sep 28 Extended Interview: Russell Banks Discusses ‘Lost Memory of Skin’ A squalid encampment under a causeway in an American city is 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… By Molly Finnegan