Karen Olsson

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Karen Olsson (born 1972) is an American novelist and journalist. Her first novel, Waterloo (FSG 2005), is set in a thinly veiled version of Austin, Texas. The book follows a down-on-his-motivation reporter at an alternative weekly paper as he tries to get over a failed relationship and investigate some irregular goings-on at the state capitol. Writing in the New York Times Book Review, Mark Costello described Waterloo as "a melancholy comedy of Texas politics [written] with great wit and assurance."

A former editor of The Texas Observer, Olsson is a senior editor at Texas Monthly and has written for Slate.com and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in Austin and is currently at work on her second novel.

References

NY Times book review by Mark Costello, accessed 17 October 2006.
Texas Monthly masthead, accessed 17 October 2006.

External links

Excerpt from Waterloo in Texas Monthly
review of Waterloo in The Believer.

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