The New Yorker: Fiction

Karen Russell Reads Louise Erdrich

Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2025 · 52 min

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Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Stone (newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/the-stone),” by Louise Erdrich, which was published in The New Yorker in 2019. Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections “Vampires in the Lemon Grove (amazon.com/Vampires-Lemon-Grove-Stories-Contem…)” and “Orange World and Other Stories (amazon.com/Orange-World-Stories-Vintage-Contem…)” and the novels “Swamplandia! (amazon.com/Swamplandia-Vintage-Contemporaries-…),” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, and “The Antidote (amazon.com/Antidote-Russell-Karen/dp/178474564…),” which came out earlier this year and was long-listed for the National Book Award. Russell, the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, was included in the magazine’s “20 Under 40” Fiction Issue in 2010.

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