The Boston Globe, April 2nd, 1998
NEW YORK -- Russell Banks seems happy. For many novelists that wouldn't be such a significant statement, but for Banks, whose novels dig deep into the soul of the American underclasses -- where wife-beating and child abuse and murder and self-loathing are bred in the bone -- even the appearance of satisfaction is newsworthy. Things are going well for the novelist, who's just turned 58. One reason the Newton-born author is so comfortable is that he's become that oddest of hyphenates, a writer-producer. "It's the best way I know of to protect the work. And I really enjoy it," he says of his role...
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