Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It takes an unconventional fabulist to address something so vast as American history. Karen Russell is known for surreal ...

Karen Russell once described her work as “Hitchcock meets the swamp.” Her début novel, “Swamplandia!,” certainly fits the bill. The novel grew out of “Ava Wrestles the Alligator,” a short story first ...

Swamplandia!, the talented short-story writer Karen Russell’s debut novel, gives us two more of those precocious children who overcrowd the last 60 years of American fiction. From J.D. Salinger’s ...

If Charles Dickens had made it as far as the Everglades during one of his U.S. reading tours, he might have been inspired to create characters suspiciously similar to the Bigtrees, the family at the ...

Karen Russell writes a beautiful sentence. She sets them down in the Florida Keys of "Swamplandia!" -- the name of a fading family amusement park that featured alligator-wrestling shows "365 days a ...

Both coming-of-age tale and wistful story of mourning, Karen Russell’s wonderfully imaginative “Swamplandia!” introduces us to an adolescent heroine who’s got more troubles than most 13-year-olds. Ava ...

“Uh-oh. Run for your life. This girl is on fire,” this reviewer wrote in these pages in 2006, when Karen Russell’s unnerving collection of stories, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” ...

It takes an unconventional fabulist to address something so vast as American history. Karen Russell is known for surreal storytelling and fantastic language in work marked by slanted perspective and ...

It takes an unconventional fabulist to address something so vast as American history. Karen Russell is known for surreal storytelling and fantastic language in work marked by slanted perspective and ...