#1619: Karen Russell’s “Vampires in the Lemon Grove”

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Jul 30 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

Karen Russell is the author of the New York Times best sellers Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Swamplandia!, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She now presents a new collection of short fiction that showcases her gifts of language and imagination entitled “Orange World and Other Stories.”

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