We are thrilled to host Karen Russell as this year’s Bainbridge Book Festival Keynote Author. Karen Russell is the author of six works of fiction, including the New York Times Bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has received two National Magazine Awards for Fiction, the Shirley Jackson Award, the 2023 Bottari Lattes Grinzane prize, the 2024 Mary Jackson Award, and was selected for the National Book Foundation’s “5 under 35” prize and The New Yorker’s “20 under 40” list (she is now decisively over 40). She has taught literature and creative writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of California-Irvine, Williams College, Columbia University, and Bryn Mawr College, and was the Endowed Char of Texas State’s MFA program.
Russell’s latest novel The Antidote is an international bestseller. A dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town; The Antidote was critically acclaimed with Lauren Groff describing it as “profound as it is wonderfully strange”.
Tickets include one (1) hardcover copy of Karen Russell’s newest title “The Antidote”. Ticket sales are limited and go towards keeping the remainder of the Bainbridge Book Festival free for all. We hope that you will join us.
Click here to purchase tickets for Karen Russell this October 10th at 7 PM at the Rowing Center
Can’t make the talk but want to read this fantastic book? Purchase a copy here from Eagle Harbor Book Company.