ISBN: 9781646220304
Editorial: Catapult
Autor: Brady, Amy
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 288
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and moreIn this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat.In the opening essay, National Book Award finalist Lydia Millet mourns the end of the Saguaro cacti in her Arizona backyard due to drought. Later, Omar El Akkad contemplates how the rise of temperatures in the Middle East is destroying his home and the wellspring of his art. Gabrielle Bellot reflects on how a bizarre lionfish invasion devastated the coral reef near her home in the Caribbean—a precursor to even stranger events to come. Traveling through Nebraska, Terese Svoboda witnesses cougars running across highways and showing up in kindergartens.As the stories unfold—from Antarctica to Australia, New Hampshire to New York—an intimate portrait of a climate-changed world emerges, captured by writers whose lives jostle against incongruous memories of familiar places that have been transformed in startling ways.Review"The World as We Knew It is an attempt . . . to hold a mirror up to our lives at a crucial moment in our collective history, and reflect the slew of compounding, often conflicting fears that characterize it . . . Very occasionally, in the anthology, those anxieties are replaced by something else—a sense of peace and beauty that springs forth not despite the horrors of our world but because of them . . . These are the moments when stories transform from fragile mirrors into shields. When our power and powerlessness can coexist without us feeling the paralyzing weight of their illogic. When living on a dying planet seems possible." —Lily Houston King, The Atlantic"To capture the impact of climate change in all its existential proportions, we might need methods more ancient than modern science. Drawing on storytelling, lived experience, and even a bit of superstition, The World As We Knew It is a collection of essays from leading literary writers that does just that, confronting climate change with wider vocabulary than science affords . . . The World As We Knew It is resoundingly articulate about climate change in ways that dispassionate scientific inquiry cannot be. By taking a more off-the-cuff approach, the essay collection is so razor sharp, one feels it has a chance of reaching even the most hardened skeptic." —Joseph Swift, Science"Rather than reckon with global indicators, the nineteen contributors to The World as We Knew It focus on more intimate and immediate signs of climate change, those that are apparent to families and individuals worldwide. By illuminating 'the connections between the personal and the planetary,' the anthology’s resonant and introspective essays grieve what we’ve already lost, honor what we still have, and prepare us for whatever may come next." —Benjamin Samuel, BOMB"Each author brings a unique style and focus to their topic, with prose that is in varying degrees lyrical, reflective and urgent . . . [The World As We Knew It] is a warning that commands the full attention of every reader." —BookPage"A vital collection of essays from some of our best writers . . . What editors Amy Brady and Tajja Isen have created is an unforgettable chorus that, when assembled together, act as a piercing rallying cry." —Katie Yee, Literary Hub"Inspiring" —Library Journal"Striking . . . A startling collection of 19 essays documenting the impact of climate change at the individual level, by a geographically diverse group of writers." —Shelf Awareness"With contributions from Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Melissa Febos, and many others, this book offers input from some of our most inve
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