Russell Banks
Russell Banks
Russell Banksis an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". His stories usually revolve around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 March 1940
CountryUnited States of America
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sin prohibition
Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.
war united-states cold
The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.
new-york house john-brown
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
luck lasts lifetime
Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.
motivation tangled complexes
Motivations are too tangled and complex.
war rights political
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.
discipline pals attention
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.
loyalty people kicks
Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.
reading boys artist
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
couple years nyu
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
memoir
Much more than memoir; it's history.
wonderful unconscious smarter
There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.
chimpanzees
Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.
clever reading writing
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.