The Cape Cod Canal, built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1914, cut through the base of what had been a peninsula, effectively turning the Cape into an island -- a world apart -- accessible by car ...

Richard Russo couldn’t write a bad book if his life depended on it, but what he has written in “That Old Cape Magic” is one considerably less enjoyable than his Pulitzer-winning “Empire Falls” or ...

Much of Pulitzer-prize-winner Richard Russo’s new novel takes place on the beach, but this not your typical beach read. The Griffins aren’t your typical family. In fact, the typical family is an ...

I have long believed the Cape Cod Canal to be a magical place, but one morning as I did a “dawn patrol” bike ride with a friend, I saw proof. The sun was just rising over the Atlantic, and an ...

TRURO – He’s been here near the tip of Cape Cod long enough to have watched hemlines and haircuts dramatically yo-yo, to remember finger-snapping beatniks and flower-power hippies, to recall boomtime ...

Author Richard Russo sifts through failed marriages, memory and the bonds between parents and children in his new novel, That Old Cape Magic. Though the novel presents a dim view of relationships, ...

Storytelling is a talent, but one not defined by a single skill. There are masters of suspense, of mood, of romance, of surprise - wizards possessed of a thousand different spells that provoke the ...