Tickets on Sale: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Richard Russo Returns to Spa City on Aug. 3 

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo will return to Saratoga Springs for a special event celebrating the release of his new novel Somebody’s Fool, the third and final novel in his beloved North Bath Trilogy. 

The event will take place 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 3 at the Spa Little Theater, and is presented in partnership with the Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s Literary Arts@SPAC initiative and WAMC/Northeast Public Radio. 

Russo will be interviewed on stage by Joe Donahue of WAMC, and recorded for subsequent broadcast on Donahue’s The Book Show. The conversation will be followed by a question-and-answer session, and a book signing.

In Somebody’s Fool, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool. Infused with all the wry humor and shrewd observations that Russo is known for, Somebody’s Fool is another classic from a modern master.

Russo is the author of nine novels, most recently Chances Are…, Everybody’s Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody’s Fool, won multiple awards for its screen adaptation, and in 2023 his novel Straight Man was adapted into the television series Lucky Hank. In 2017, he received France’s Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. Originally from Gloversville, NY, he now lives in Portland, ME.

Tickets are required for this event and space is limited. Tickets, and can be purchased at northshire.com/upcoming-events. For more information on this or other Northshire events, call 518-682-4200 or visit northshire.com.