![]() ![]() We caught up with her recently in Philadelphia, where she’s working on her next novel, to chat about monsters, her process, and why scarecrows are so frightening. ![]() Sometimes the protagonists are regular teenagers, sometimes they’re horses, sometimes they’re the undead, but who cares? You just want to see what Russell will do with them.įull Stop first sat down with Russell after the release of her first novel, Swamplandia, which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. Vampires in the Lemon Grove hops from Italian citrus farms to 19th century frontier territory to the Iraq War without feeling strained. It’s a term she finds puzzling (“I never really know what people mean by that,” she confesses) but it’s apt: her new collection of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, demonstrates the way a writer’s point of view can unify a collection of extraordinary range. Lucy’s School for Girls Raised by Wolves, in 2006. Russell has been hailed for her “original voice” ever since she published her first book of short stories, St. Those are the kinds of authors that Karen Russell admires (she cites Flannery O’Connor and Virginia Woolf among them), and it’s the kind of writer she happens to be. With some writers, it hardly matters what they’re writing about - what’s compelling is the distinctive way they consider and then order the world on the page. This article originally appeared in Full Stop. ![]()
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