But then, one of the benefits now is you get over the hurdle of your own perfectionism. I'm six months pregnant, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to write every single one of the stories on this collection. But I got to say, I feel like you are just mining it. Karen Russell's latest story collection includes tales of spectral parties, demonic bargains, and some highly aggressive forms of plant life.Ĭourtesy of Penguin/Random House PublishersĪpril Baer: Conventional wisdom tells us pregnancy and parenthood make it hard for writers to focus and do their best work. Here are some excerpts from our conversation: Q&A with Karen Russell Russell thinks through each story, infusing her characters with love, but never lapsing into Wes-Anderson-level twee. She'll read at Powell's City of Books Friday, May 24. Russell, a recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant”, is a seemingly inexhaustible source of intriguing ideas: What if an endangered plant decided to go on the offensive and spread its seeds through unassuming humans passing by? What would rural life look like if Florida was overwhelmed by toxic seawater, leaving humans to make do poling through the waves on boats? Or what if a demon told you he could keep your child from harm forever? Please send all press inquiries (photo, video, interviews, audio-recording, etc.Portland writer Karen Russell publishes her third story collection, "Orange World" in 2019.ĭan Hawk/Courtesy of Penguin-Random House Publishers A standby line will form one hour before the program. All registered seats are released shortly before start time, and seats may become available at that time. Priority will be given to those who have registered in advance, but registration does not guarantee admission. She will be joined in conversation by novelist Téa Obreht.įor free events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house.
Russell, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2012 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, will speak about her unique brand of storytelling and navigating plots that take us to the edge of reality and beyond. Here she explores territory as common as first love, new motherhood, and the fight for a better life with the fantastical and phantasmagoric flair we have come to anticipate and admire in her work.
Widely embraced for her earlier works Swamplandia and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Florida native Karen Russell returns with a new collection of eight short stories as funny and inventive as they are memorable. The bestselling author's new short story collection bends reality with uncanny imagination and unmistakable heart.Īlongside the alligator wrestlers and prescient seagulls of her previous books, the tornado farmers, beloved bog girls, and breastfed devils in Karen Russell's new collection, Orange World and Other Stories, are right at home.
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