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 and the cover of her 2025 novel. Fans of author Karen Russell have two things to look forward to this week: One, the long-awaited release of her second novel, “The Antidote,” on Tuesday; ...

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 ...

When Russell’s first novel, Swamplandia!, first came out in 2011, no one mistook it for a young-adult novel. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Russell had already been chosen as one of the ...

Scott Rudin has signed up to adapt the book Swamplandia for HBO. The producer is planning to make the Karen Russell novel into a half-hour comedy project, The Hollywood Reporter says. Swamplandia ...

A series of upbeat, sentimental fables, the 10 stories of Russell's debut are set in an enchanted version of North America and narrated by articulate, emotionally precocious children from ...

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 ...