Russell: Well, that’s probably true, too, but I think it was such a good instruction for a would be fiction writer because you have all of these inventive places, you know. Strainchamps: I was going to say a lot of people wouldn’t think of that as the least magical place in America. And I grew up in South Florida, right, and I think the last time I was on the show, I was talking about Florida, which is like a magical realist state. Whatever distinction between the real world and the imaginary one gets effaced. I’ve sort of always been drawn as a reader to fiction where it’s happening on a continuum, right? It’s really slippery. I always feel a little uncomfortable I guess, talking now, which I have been doing sort of, a lot of yakking about fantasy and reality like I believe they are binaries, you know like I think they are two discrete categories. Karen Russell: Oh my goodness, the bar is high if you are saying perfect blend, right? I do like that, I like that it is some kind of Starbucks blend of magic and reality. Now she has released her second collection of short stories, "Vampires in the Lemon Grove."Īnne Strainchamps: Karen, the short stories of this new collection, I read one description of them as the perfect blend of magic and reality. Russell was named a National Book Foundation "Five Under Thirty-Five" honoree in 2009 for her first short-story collection. Her debut novel, "Swamplandia!," was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer prize for fiction. Jim Fleming: Karen Russell isn’t wasting any time making a name for herself in the literary world.
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