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Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

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Karen Russell
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: July 10
Novelist
University Teacher
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Miami
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