![]() ![]() “I just started reading Field Notes from a Catastrophe, by Elizabeth Kolbert, which is creative nonfiction/reportage. “While it may underestimate literary responses to the climate crisis, Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable at least holds us accountable for our distractions.” We must think multigenerationally to reverse human damage to Earth.” “Marcia Bjornerud’s book Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World (2018) sees Deep Time thinking as an essential concept in the Anthropocene. ![]() “I absolutely love Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being (2015), which is about so many types of connections, including global, in the time of climate change.” Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene, edited by Linda Russo and Marthe Reed (2018), a collective glossary of terms, both invented and redefined, offers that, as well as a model for literary cooperative action.” “We need a new vocabulary to speak accurately about our dire situation and to imagine a better way forward. We asked our readers, “What work of fiction, poetry, theater, or nonfiction has had the most profound impact on your understanding of climate change?” Here's what you said: ![]()
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