Karen Russell: “The Ghost Birds”
This week's New Yorker story is Karen Russell's "The Ghost Birds."
Karen Russell: “The Prospectors”
Trevor revisits Karen Russell's strange, fun, but perhaps ultimately disappointing story, "The Prospectors," from her most recent collection Orange World.
Karen Russell: “Orange World”
It's time for the annual Fiction Issue of The New Yorker. Here we have Karen Russell's "Orange World."
Karen Russell: “The Bog Girl”
This week's New Yorker story is Karen Russell's "The Bog Girl." Read the full post.
The New Yorker Summer Fiction Issue
The 2015 summer fiction issue of The New Yorker is now available, featuring stories from Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, Primo Levi, Jonathan Franzen, and Karen Russell. Read the full post.
Karen Russell: “The Bad Graft”
This week's New Yorker fiction is Karen Russell's "The Bad Graft," one of the four selected for the summer fiction issue. Read the full post.
Karen Russell: “Dougbert Shackleton’s Rules for Antarctic Tailgating”
“Dougbert Shackleton's Rules for Antarctic Tailgating” is the sixth story in Karen Russell’s second short story collection,Vampires in the Lemon Grove. For an overview with links to review of the others stories in this collection, please click here. One of the risks of setting out to review every story in an unread short story collection is that [...]
Karen Russell: “The Barn at the End of Our Term”
“The Barn at the End of Our Term” is the fifth story in Karen Russell’s second short story collection,Vampires in the Lemon Grove. For an overview with links to review of the others stories in this collection, please click here. I planned to, but I haven't been reviewing the stories in Russell's collection regularly. I keep getting [...]
Karen Russell: “Proving Up”
"Proving Up" is the fourth story in Karen Russell's second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. For an overview with links to reviews of the other stories in this collection, please click here. "Proving Up" was originally published in Zoetrope, Vol. 15, No. 3 as "The Hox River Window." After not particularly liking the prior two stories [...]
Karen Russell: “The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979”
“The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979” is the third story in Karen Russell’s second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. For an overview with links to review of the others stories in this collection, please click here. This story was originally published in Tin House (as "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach"; I have no [...]