So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more … - Karen Russell

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Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

Karen Russell

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi
fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

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America's great talent, I think, is to generate desires that would never have occurred, natively,. . . and to make those desires so painfully real that money becomes a fiction, an imaginary means to some concrete end.

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I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter.

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