Karen Russell Reads “The Ghost Birds”


Photograph by Dan Hawk

Karen Russell reads her story “The Ghost Birds,” from the October 11, 2021, issue of the magazine. Russell is the author of five books of fiction, including the story collection “Orange World,” which was published in 2019, and the novel “Swamplandia!,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. She was made a MacArthur fellow in 2013.