LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE by Roy Scranton ( 9780872866690 )

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LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
REFLECTIONS ON THE END OF A CIVILIZATION

By:

Roy Scranton

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0872866696

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9780872866690

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Publisher:

CITY LIGHTS BOOKS

Pub. date:

6 October, 2015

Series:

City Lights Open Media

Pages:

144

Description:

An Iraq War vet's bracing, visionary response to the challenge posed by global warming and his hope in the humanities.

Synopsis:

Scranton's experience as a Iraq combat vet gives him undeniable credibility in existential matters of life and death; it also gives him market and media access where other climate change authors do not.Book is based on an essay Scranton wrote for the New York Times, which became the most popular emailed article of the day, reaching thousands of readers.That New York Times essay "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene" by Scranton was picked for BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2014 (Mariner, 2014).Essay will also be published in the forthcoming "The Stone Reader" coming out this year from Liveright/Norton.The press for Scanton's previous book "Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War" (he was an editor) was amazing including an interview on Fresh Air."Fire and Forget" includes the title story from "Redeployment" by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in Fiction.Scranton expects ongoing assignments with Rolling Stone which will help bring ongoing exposure to him and his book; his interview with Naomi Klein is in a winter 2015 issue of the magazine.

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LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE