Bibliograph

The world as we knew it, dispatches from a changing climate., edited by Amy Brady and Tajja Isen, with essay by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos

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The world as we knew it, dispatches from a changing climate., edited by Amy Brady and Tajja Isen, with essay by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The world as we knew it

Oclc number

1329282056

Responsibility statement

edited by Amy Brady and Tajja Isen, with essay by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos

Sub title

dispatches from a changing climate.

Summary

"In 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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

From this valley, they say, you are leaving / Lydia Millet -- Starshift / Gabrielle Bellot -- A brief history of breathing / Pitchaya Sudbanthad -- What we don't talk about when we talk about Antarctica / Elizabeth Rush -- Iowa bestiary / Melissa Febos -- How do you live with displacement? / Emily Raboteau -- Faster than we thought / Omar Akkad -- Unearthing / Lidia Yuknavitch -- Leap / Meera Subramanian -- Come hell / Lacy M. Johnson -- After the storm / Mary Anna{uml}ise Heglar -- Walking on water / Rachel Riederer -- Mobbing call / Tracy O'Neill -- Moments of being / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Until this snow reaches the ocean / Nickolas Butler -- Season of sickness / Porochistas Khakpour -- The development / Alexandra Kleeman -- Cougar / Terese Svoboda -- Signs and wonders / Delia Falconer

Target audience

adult

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