6/28/2023 0 Comments Vampires in the lemon grove![]() ![]() ![]() As a younger reader, I loved Jack London, Ray Bradbury, Tolkien, the Narnia books, A Wrinkle in Time. Karen Russell: I always get tongue-tied when I have to choose a single book or author. By the way, she's over swamps: She tells us her next novel will be set in a dustbowl "wasteland."īookish: Which author or book most profoundly shaped you as a writer? Is there one writer you're guided by as a pole star? Here, Russell reveals how "mucking around in the swampy mangrove forest" near her childhood home in Miami and reading everything from Jack London to The Grapes of Wrath shaped her as a writer of "magical thinking" fiction. The stories in Vampires are full of war, recovery from addiction, women who've turned into silkworms and, yes, bloodsuckers (but they've gone clean). ![]() Hailed as a "Young Lion" by the New York Public Library and named to The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list of authors, Russell confessed to Bookish that her real ambition is to make the "85 Writers Who Are Still Lucid at 85" list. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, published when she was 25. Karen Russell's fiendishly titled new short-story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, follows her Pulitzer Prize-nominated debut novel, Swamplandia!, and her first collection, St. ![]()
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