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Hannah Tinti – 2017 AWP Book Fair Interview
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Video description: We spoke with Karen Russell here at AWP 2019; her debut novel (2011’s) ‘Swamplandia, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A native of Miami, but currently based in Portland, Russell’s fiction has made an impression with readers for her balance of the outlandish and the profound, with a mix of magical realism.