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Karen Russell

(1981) Novelist United States

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Karen Russell is a novelist from the United States, best known for Introduction to Media Production and Marketing.

Quick Facts About Karen Russell

Born: July 10, 1981
Nationality: United States
Profession: Novelist
Notable works: Introduction to Media Production and Marketing

About Karen Russell

Karen Russell is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Swamplandia!, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 2009, the National Book Foundation named Russell a 5 Under 35 honoree. She is also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship MacArthur Fellows Program Berlin Prize

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“He tried to scrub children's vomit from the webbing of the Tongue in a way that suggested deep reservoirs of genius.”

Children

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“What bird are you calling?' I ask, finally, when I can't stand it any longer. The bird man stops whistling. He grins,…

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“I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father…

Children-s-reminiscences

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“Later I had to raise the baby rats she ate, and why I thought one creature was my beloved pet while the…

Love

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“I wanted to go to him then? Not all of me but the same part he'd just hurt. I don't understand this…

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“I wish I could say I gulp pure courage as I run, like those brave little girls you read about in stories,…

Ava-wrestles-the-alligator

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“But her favorite is the Houdini fantasy. Big Red disagrees with his biographers, who say that he was driven by his longing…

Karen-russell

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I grew up reading a lot of these super weird, genre-bending Southern gothic writers.

Gothic

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“I believe I met my mother there, in the final instant. Not her ghost but some vaster portion of her, her self…

Parenting

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“I think something more mysterious might be happening, less articulate than any of the captioned and numeraled drawings in the 'The Spiritist's…

Burning inside

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“We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on…

Ava-wrestles-the-alligator

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In a way, I think we all want to look to that journalistic voice as a kind of global omniscience, a big…

Accounting

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Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.

Inspirational

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Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding…

Bad

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“There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My father--my real…

Family

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“There's something pitiable and terrifying about the unconscious bully. His crumpled nose and hat. ... This is the first true thing that…

Accident-brief

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“Mr. Pappadakis smells like Just for Men peroxide dye and eucalyptus foot unguents. He has a face like a catcher's mitt. The…

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There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

Certain

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I do think that I have a more flexible view of the interactions between people, and between human and non-human protagonists, humans…

Flexible

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I want a real encounter with something true and disconcerting about peoples' natures.

Encounters

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Whenever someone asks me about fantasy versus realism, I'm like, "I don't know, guys. Did we not all just descend into some…

Ask me

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Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just…

Alive

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My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds…

Certain

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Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

Beautiful

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The girl has a funny way of romanticizing things.

Funny

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