Well, this is weird. Karen Russell's Floridian brand of magical realism may be coming to a teevee near you! Weird, because the book being adapted is Russell's St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised By Wolves, which is a collection of unrelated short stories about ghost boyfriends, magic goggles, the children of werewolves, and a summer camp for children with sleep disorders, all set in the Florida Everglades. Maybe the TV show will be a capsule series like American Horror Story, with each new season dedicated to a new, very weird tale? My guess is probably not. Which is probably too bad, because that would be awesome.

Also too bad? The Hollywood Reporter, which originally reported this news, claims that St. Lucy's is Russell's "first novel," as if Swamplandia never happened and the short story is dead! The gall!

Still, Russell's book will be in the hands of Jenny Bicks, a longtime TV writer and producer who most recently worked on The Big C, the underappreciated show that starred Laura Linney as an unapologetically unsympathetic woman coping with a cancer diagnosis in inappropriate ways. Oh, I miss that show. TV doesn't have nearly enough antiheroines. Maybe The Karen Russell Show St. Lucy's will help fill the gap!