De Amerikaanse schrijver Russell Banks werd geboren op 28 maart 1940 in Newton, Massachusetts. Zie ook alle tags voor Russell Banks op dit blog.
Uit: Rule of the Bone
“It actually started with me roaming around the house after school looking for something thatwasn’t boring, porn books or videos maybe, or condoms. Anything. Plus who knows, they might have their own little stash of weed. My mom and especially Ken were seriously into alcohol then but maybe they aren’t as uptight as they seem, I’m thinking. Anything is possible. The house was small, four rooms and a bathroom, a mobile home on cinderblocks like a regular house only without a basement or garage and no attic and I’d lived there with my mom and my real dad from the time I was three until he left which happened when I was five and after that with my mom and Ken who legally adopted me and became my stepfather up until now, so I knew the place like I knew the inside of my mouth.
I thought I’d poked through every drawer and looked into every closet and searched under every bed and piece of furniture in the place. I’d even pulled out all these old Reader’s Digest novels that Ken had found out at the base and brought home to read someday but mainly just to look good in the livingroom and flipped them open one by one looking for one of those secret compartments that you can cut into the pages with a razor and hide things. Nothing. Nothing new, I mean. Except for some old photograph albums of my grandmother’s that my mom had that I found in a box on the top shelf of the linen closet. My mom’d showed them to me a few years ago and I’d forgotten probably because they were mostly pictures of people I didn’t know like my mom’s cousins and aunts and uncles but when I saw them again this time I remembered once looking for pictures of my father from when he was still alive and well and living here in Au Sable and finding only one of him. It was of him and my mom and his car and I’d studied it like it was a secret message because it was the only picture of him I’d ever seen. You’dthought Grandma at least would’ve kept a few other snaps but no.”

Russell Banks (Newton, 28 maart 1940)
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