Karrie Higgins

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    In a focused and engaging Saturday Interview, Arielle Bernstein talks to essayist Karrie Higgins—the author of a 2015 Best American Essay titled “Strange Flowers”—about the generative quality of chaos within the creative process. Higgins points to the influence of forensic science on her approach.…

  • The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Karrie Higgins

    The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Karrie Higgins

    The more narratives that approach reality “differently” get treated as “insane” or “unreal,” the less readers are exposed to them, and the more “unreal” or “insane” they seem. It’s like a feedback loop.