Swamps Meet Hitchcock

“So I guess I don’t feel like I seek strangeness out—I feel like we’re all surrounded by it—but there’s so much bewildering noise in our culture right now, at such a deafening and constant volume, that it’s easy for me to become inured to the strangeness of any ‘ordinary’ Tuesday.”

The Book Bench talks to the young and very talented Karen Russell, author of the recent and what’s certainly one of the more intriguing new novels out now, Swamplandia!

I assume it’s intriguing because it’s about swamps, madmen and alligators — among other things. Plus the cover is just gorgeous.

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