{"id":1542,"global_id":"inprinthouston.org?id=1542","global_id_lineage":["inprinthouston.org?id=1542"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2014-10-08 21:08:09","date_utc":"2014-10-08 21:08:09","modified":"2019-07-17 09:48:57","modified_utc":"2019-07-17 14:48:57","url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/event\/karen-russell\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/inprinthouston.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/1542","title":"Karen Russell","description":"<p><P><STRONG><A HREF=\"http:\/\/03e.1bd.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/978-0-307-95723-8_1_.jpg\" REL=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG CLASS=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1543\" ALT=\"978-0-307-95723-8_1_\" WIDTH=\"200\" HEIGHT=\"297\" SRC=\"https:\/\/s.evbuc.com\/https_proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F03e.1bd.myftpupload.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F10%2F978-0-307-95723-8_1_.jpg&amp;sig=ADR2i790d1DSgYGkNSrrb8l-0GLJURvU7A\"><\/IMG><\/A>KAREN RUSSELL<\/STRONG> \u201cis arguably our greatest fantasist writing serious fiction today,\u201d declares NPR, and <EM>People<\/EM> magazine writes, \u201cKaren Russell is a storyteller with a voice like no other.\u201d Her debut story collection <EM>St. Lucy\u2019s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves<\/EM>, published when she was in her twenties, was called \u201coriginal and astonishing, joyful and unsettling\u201d in a starred <EM>Booklist<\/EM> review. Her novel <EM>Swamplandia! <\/EM>was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and selected by <EM>The New York Times<\/EM> as one of the 10 Best Books of 2011. Her other works include <EM>Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Other Storie<\/EM>s and the e-book <EM>Sleep Donation: A Novella. Time Out Chicago <\/EM>calls <EM>Vampires<\/EM> \u201cdazzlingly strange &#8230;.\u00a0 vacillating between horror and humor, Russell\u2019s writing recalls both George Saunders and vintage Stephen King, sometimes simultaneously.\u201d Michiko Kakutani in\u00a0<EM>The New York Times<\/EM>\u00a0writes, \u201c[Russell] has fashioned a quirky, textured voice that is thoroughly her own: lyrical and funny, fantastical and meditative.\u201d Russell was the youngest of the 2013 MacArthur Foundation \u201cgenius\u201d fellowship recipients, and she has been included in\u00a0<EM>The New Yorker\u2019s<\/EM>\u00a020 Under 40, the National Book Foundation\u2019s 5 Under 35, and among <EM>Granta\u2019s<\/EM> Best Young American Novelists.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>Reading followed by an on-stage interview, book sale and signing.<\/STRONG><BR><br \/>\n<STRONG> To order books by Karen Russell at a discount click here.<\/STRONG><BR><br \/>\n<STRONG> To submit questions for Karen Russell click here.<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><STRONG>LINKS:<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/>\n<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/bios\/willing_davidson\/search?contributorName=Willing%20Davidson\" REL=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThis Week in Fiction: Karen Russell,\u201d <EM>The New Yorker<\/EM>, June 2, 2014. Karen Russell talks about the spiritual power of Joshua trees.<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/03\/books\/karen-russells-sleep-donation.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0\" REL=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cTerminal Tossing and Turning\u201d by Michiko Kakutani in <EM>The New York Times<\/EM>, April 2, 2014. A review of Russell\u2019s e-book <EM>Sleep Donation<\/EM>.<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/03\/26\/294820998\/sleep-donation-a-dark-futuristic-lullaby-for-insomniacs\" REL=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Article and interview on NPR\u2019s Fresh Air about <EM>Sleep Donation<\/EM>.<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/02\/06\/karen-russell-how-i-write.html\" REL=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cKaren Russell: How I Write.\u201d Interview by Noah Charney in <EM>The Daily Beast<\/EM>, Feb. 2, 2013.<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/17\/books\/17book.html\" REL=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Review of <EM>Swamplandia!<\/EM> by Janet Maslin in <EM>The New York Times<\/EM>, Feb. 16, 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