Russell Banks reveals the reality behind his new novel, Lost Memory of Skin (Ecco; HarperAudio; Large Type, HarperLuxe; ePub, OverDrive) in an interview on PBS News Hour last night.

Janet Maslin gives the book a heartfelt review in Monday’s NYT. About a young man who convicted as a sex offender after unwittingly becoming involved with underage girl via the internet, Maslin says Banks grippingly depicts how the character moves from “helpless innocence to enlightened dignity, from all-consuming shame to glimmering self-knowledge” and says the book is “destined to be a canonical novel of its time.”

The book rose to #140 on Amazon’s sales ranking.

Below is the extended PBS interview:

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