Karen Russell

1 week ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Karen Russell |Chris Hewitt

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” her first novel since Pulitzer Prize finalist “Swamplandia,” does not make it easy on reviewers. This is partly a factor of the Dust Bowl-era novel’s structure, which is divided into chapters narrated by about 10 characters (including a scarecrow and, in one chapter, a cat). Their voices are not as differentiated as you’d hope and it takes almost half of the book’s 400 pages for their stories to coalesce.

1 month ago | wweek.com | Lidia Yuknavitch |Javier Zamora |Timothy Snyder |Karen Russell

This month, we took a look at the top sellers from Powell’s Books, Literary Arts, Broadway Books and Annie Bloom’s Books to see what the city’s reading, and tallied up which books appear the most. Here are the city’s top reads for March. 1. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad2. Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch3. Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora4. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder5.

1 month ago | csmonitor.com | Holly Brickley |Charlotte McConaghy |Laila Lalami |Karen Russell

Deep Cuts, by Holly BrickleyIn the year 2000, an aspiring music writer meets a future indie rock star. Their witty banter about songs sounds like Nora Ephron for Pitchfork readers. Can this woman and man just be friends? Holly Brickley’s lyrical debut novel should rocket up the (bookseller) charts.

1 month ago | startribune.com | Chris Hewitt |Karen Russell

Review: Four characters weather the Dust Bowl in ‘The Antidote’Fiction: Karen Russell’s novel shifts perspectives from a child to a farmer to a witch to a photographer. This famous photo of a father and his sons during the Dust Bowl was taken in Oklahoma by Arthur Rothstein, who acknowledged in a 1942 interview that he staged some of his photographs.

1 month ago | barnesandnoble.com | Karen Russell |Isabelle McConville

Of Dust and Dreams: Poets and Writers on Karen Russell Sweeping, gothic and gritty, The Antidote is a genre-bending tour-de-force. Journey to the heart of Nebraska in this transportive story about history, American ideology, and community. Read on for an excellent excerpt from Poets & Writers‘ March/April cover story on Karen Russell’s (Swamplandia!) new novel. Grab the latest issue of Poets & Writers at your nearest B&N Newsstand today.