![]() ![]() “It’s just been embarrassing to realize how raw and nervous I am all over again. “It’s just, like, the worst fear,” the Miami-born Russell says from her current home in Philadelphia, where she moved last year to teach writing at Bryn Mawr College. About how she’ll respond to their reaction to the book. About how “Vampires in the Lemon Grove,” her new story collection, will be received by her fans and critics. Stephen King, no stranger to success, raved that the book, an inventively written odyssey set deep in the Everglades, is “as terrifying as ‘Deliverance.’ “Īnd still, Russell is worried. ![]() The Pulitzer Prize Board named it a finalist in the fiction category. HBO optioned it for a forthcoming series. NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the New York Times ranked it high on their year-end lists. Karen Russell’s debut novel, “Swamplandia!” was one of the most-acclaimed books of 2011. ![]()
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