About this episode

Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss Louise Erdrich's story 'The Stone'.

Karen Russell joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “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” and “Orange World and Other Stories” and the novels “Swamplandia!,” which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012, and “The Antidote,” 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Deborah Treisman

Guest: Karen Russell

Topics covered

• fiction
• literature
• author discussion
• short stories
• book awards

Keywords

• Karen Russell
• Louise Erdrich
• The Stone
• fiction
• The New Yorker

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The New Yorker

Books & works: The Stone, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Orange World and Other Stories, Swamplandia!, The Antidote

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