Life and Art: Essays
If this collection has a certain heft, it’s due to the meaty issues Russo has chosen to confront. And yet, these essays abound with humor and anecdotes.
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Russo scholars...will devour this book ... The second half of the collection —Art— is a more acquired taste ... Considered all together, readers can judge if the essays, like the collection’s title, truly inform each other, or if it’s enough to simply enjoy these snippets before Russo graces the world with another novel.
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Richard Russo is...a perceptive and empathetic essayist and critic. That skill is manifest in his second nonfiction collection, Life and Art ... Remarkable ... As is true of his fiction, he's a direct and plainspoken stylist. But that lack of affectation should not be confused with an absence of depth. Despite their brevity and transparency, Life and Art's insightful explorations offer more grist for contemplation than many longer and superficially more complex works.
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