Orange World and Other Stories: Karen Russell with Téa Obreht

The bestselling author's new short story collection bends reality with uncanny imagination and unmistakable heart.

Alongside 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. 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. 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.

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. She will be joined in conversation by novelist Téa Obreht.

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