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TAP@PBF: Oregon Symphony
November 2, 2022 @ 12:00 am
FreeStay tuned for a special podcast-only Portland Book Festival episode of Literary Arts’ The Archive Project!
A conversation between Oregon Symphony creative chair Gabriel Kahane and author Karen Russell (Sleep Donation).
This event is podcast only, and will be released on The Archive Project wherever you get your podcasts as part of the 2022 Portland Book Festival.
Karen Russell won the 2012 and the 2018 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, Swamplandia! (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also written Orange World and, most recently, Sleep Donation. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, the “5 under 35” prize from the National Book Foundation, the NYPL Young Lions Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and is a former fellow of the Cullman Center and the American Academy in Berlin. She currently holds the Endowed Chair at Texas State University’s MFA program, and lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and son.