![]() ![]() Elsewhere, we read about kleptomaniac seagulls, tailgating partiers in the Antarctic for whom the food chain is a tournament, and U.S. Vampires’ title story features a fanged couple who, tired of coffins and killing, slake their thirst with fresh citrus in Sorrento. ![]() Mary’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, reveals her fascination with how unruly nature can warp mundane reality. The Florida-born Russell burst onto the scene in 2006 as a Granta- and New Yorker-feted enfant magnifique at age 25 the title of her debut collection, St. Vampires offers the best of both literary worlds. It owes its tense plotting and weird textures to genre fiction-in particular horror and dark fantasy-but its probing themes, dense prose and openness to ambiguity belong to more highbrow fiction. Lest this book’s title make you run screaming, fear not: Russell’s second short story collection isn’t another blood-spattered rip-off. ![]()
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