Karen Russell Reads "Orange World"

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Deborah Treisman
The Writer's Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker | May 29, 2018

Karen Russell reads her story "Orange World," from the June 4 & 11, 2018, issue of The New Yorker. Russell is the author of two short-story collections, and the novel "Swamplandia," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She was included in the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" issue in 2010, and was made a MacArthur Fellow in 2013.

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