“If we don’t allow joy to exist, then we’re smothering the light”: An Interview with Kristen Arnett - Chicago Review of Books

“If we don’t allow joy to exist, then we’re smothering the light”: An Interview with Kristen Arnett - Chicago Review of Books

We hear Florida is a wild place, a fun park-shaped peninsula where, bad news, alligators can apparently climb walls. The literature of Florida is similarly outlandish: Karen Russell, Carl Hiassen, Tim Dorsey—all writers who seem to be having far more fun than most. Add to the list Kristen Arnett, whose Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One is a rollercoaster, both a serious study of humor, grief, and the full rainbow of love and a red clown nose-honk…