“All the Right Circles”
In today’s episode, we meet John Russell, author of “All the Right Circles,” a book set in the 1990s in Raleigh, North Carolina, with action in Charlotte, too, that explores themes of race, class, and money in a changing world of relations between men and women, society, business and politics across three generations.
Charlotte Readers Podcast is sponsored by Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.
In today’s episode, we meet John Russell, author of “All the Right Circles,” a book set in the 1990s in Raleigh, North Carolina, with action in Charlotte, too, that explores themes of race, class, and money in a changing world of relations between men and women, society, business and politics across three generations.
Diana Spechler, novelist and New York Times columnist says: “All the Right Circles is reminiscent of an Updike novel, had Updike been southern — it reads like the best gossip, the kind relayed in hushed voices at the fanciest cocktail parties in North Carolina. It’s a compulsively readable, gorgeously written exploration of intimacy and of power.”
We start the show with John reading from the opening pages of the book, where we learn about the significance of the highway that makes a circle out of protagonist Jack Callahan’s home town of Raleigh, North Carolina.