![]() ![]() If you were to label or categorize your writing style into a genre, what would it be called? ![]() The Rumpus: My first question is about your writing style, which doesn’t seem to fall into any preexisting category. We spoke about love, loss, motherhood, and the dark hope we can glean from living in a fiery, uncertain world. I was fortunate enough to talk recently with Russell about Orange World and Other Stories. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon and her latest collection, Orange World and Other Stories, was released in May 2019. She is a 2011 Gugenheim Fellow, a 2012 Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin, and a recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Grant. Russell forges her own path in the literary world by taking the conventions of typical genres and playing with them until they fit into a genre all to her own.Ī native of Miami, Russell’s debut novel Swamplandia! was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her style is reminiscent of fantasy and fairytales, myths and magical realism, but it doesn’t fall so succinctly into any category that already exists. ![]() She creates worlds that refuse to conform to the natural order of our own. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, I was fascinated and inspired by the ease with which Russell bent the rules of reality. Russell had come to the class as a visiting speaker and by the end of the class my decision was cemented, and my doubts were cast aside: I wanted to be a writer. I encountered Karen Russell’s work years ago while attending my first fiction workshop. ![]()
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