Russell Calloway

Russell is a middle-aged editor who runs his own publishing house. He grew up in Michigan and attended Brown, earning a degree in English. He and his family live in a dilapidated loft in TriBeCa, which he wants to sell to buy a house. These dreams of owning property are complicated by his sacrificed earning potential as an editor and publisher because of his love of literature.

He is has been married to Corrine for 23 years at the beginning of the novel, and they have two children together. The most successful author he published before Jack Carson, who quickly takes that mantle, is his deceased best friend Jeff Pierce. Because of Jeff’s drug related death, Russell dislikes drug use and disapproves of drug users, which sometimes strains his relationships with his drug-using friends.

Russell is shown to be a good, attentive father and a lackluster husband...