BURNING WORLDS COLUMN AT THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS
OPRAH MAGAZINE
“Future Shock,” an essay about climate fiction and a list of recommendations (link to online version; essay also appeared in April 2019 print issue)
THE NEW REPUBLIC
“The Communities Losing Ground to Climate Change,” a review essay
SLATE
“The Topeka of The Topeka School,” a personal essay about my home town and Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School
INSIDEHOOK
Feature on Helen Macdonald after the publication of Vesper Flights
PACIFIC STANDARD
Essay on NYC’s first Climate Museum (link to online version; essay also appeared in June/July 2018 print issue)
Review of Bill McKibben’s Falter and Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth
THE VILLAGE VOICE
Interview with J. Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer’s biographer and Library of America collection editor
Review of the climate fiction play Extreme Weather at La MaMa in NYC
Interview with author Jonathan Franzen
Profile on playwright Suzan-Lori Parks
Interview with Artistic Director of The Public Theater (NYC), Oskar Eustis
Review of the television series “The Good Fight”
Review of the film “Portrait of a Garden”
More book and film reviews for The Village Voice
CATAPULT
“Encountering Beauty and the Effects of Climate Change in Acadia National Park,” a braided essay about hiking in Maine, climate change, and Maine’s long history of nature writing
“‘Here Comes the Sun’ Was an Anthem of Hope, Now It’s a Reminder of Climate Change,” an essay about climate change and childhood nostalgia.
“The American Road Song Is Changing with the Climate,” an essay about the evolution of the road song in a time of climate crisis.
“‘Star Trek’ Failed to Reckon with Our Greatest Threat: Climate Change,” an essay about the legendary sci-fi TV show and its world-building problem.
IN THESE TIMES
“The Climate Crisis Is Mind-Boggling. That’s Why We Need Science Fiction.” (link to online version; article also appeared in July 2019 issue)
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
Interview with author Attica Locke
LONGREADS
Interview with Susan Choi about her novel Trust Exercise
THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Interview with author Dave Eggers about citizenship, immigration, and internet privacy
Interview with author Dan Brown
Interview with author Amy Gentry about #MeToo and the Austin comedy scene
Review of Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser
Review of Ill Will by Dan Chaon
Review of Shining City by Tom Rosenstiel
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY
SIERRA MAGAZINE (online)
Interview with Jeff Nesbit, executive director of Climate Nexus
LITERARY HUB
“Is Topeka the Most Poetic City in America?,” essay about the city’s poetic legacy. Includes interviews with Ben Lerner, Kevin Young, and others. (Named one of Lit Hub’s “Favorite Stories of the Year” in 2015)
“17 Writers on the Role of Fiction in Addressing Climate Change,” featuring Lydia Millet, Jeff VanderMeer, Omar El Akkad, and 14 others.
“What Kind of Literature Lives on the Dark Web?,” interview with the creators of The Torist, the Dark Web’s first lit mag.
“The History (and Present) of Book Banning in America,” essay on book banning.
“On Making Comic Books for the Blind,” profile on the man behind the first comic books for the blind.
“MFA by the Numbers, on the Eve of AWP”
MCSWEENEY’S
“Other Guesses For Why They Call it the Blues”
GUERNICA MAGAZINE
Guest edited an issue dedicated to climate fiction. My introduction.
Interview with Terese Svoboda about her collection, Great American Desert
Interview with David Wallace-Wells about his climate book, The Uninhabitable Earth
Interview with Roy Scranton about climate change and his essay collection, We’re Doomed. Now What?
EARTHER.COM
“How a Deeply Conservative Island Became a Poster Child for Climate Change.” An interview with Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem
“How We Turned Gulls Into Trash Birds.” An interview with Tim Dee, author of Landfill
“Inside the ‘Wild and Almost Unimaginable’ World of Cave Diving.” A review of Jill Heinerth’s Inside the Planet
“Underland Reimagines Nature Writing About an Increasingly Unnatural World.” A review of Robert Macfarlane’s Underland
“Under a White Sky Asks if We Can Fix Nature—or if We Even Should,” an interview with Elizabeth Kolbert
THE LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
“A Thin-Skinned, Moody Martinet Threatens the Free Press: On Richard Kluger’s ‘Indelible Ink'”
ORION MAGAZINE (online)
“Rewilding your Lawn in the Anthropocene.” An interview with author Jeff VanderMeer
THE AWL (RIP)
“The Sun Goes Down in the West.” An essay about radical 1930s theatre producer, Mary Virginia Farmer (link goes to PDF)
ELECTRIC LITERATURE
“The City Where One Wrong Word Can Kill You:” A Double-Take review of Karin Tidbeck’s Amatka, with Adam Morgan
HYPERALLERGIC
Art review of “Big Botany” at the Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, Kansas)
Art review of “Anthropocene” at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
Book review of Leanne Shapton’s Guestbook: Ghost Stories
Book review of Barbara Bouland’s Fake Like Me
HAZLITT
Interview with author Emily Robbins
OZY
7 Novels that Will Fire You Up About Climate Change, a round-up of books from a global perspective
Interview with Corey Pein, author of LIVE WORK WORK WORK DIE, about the connections between Silicon Valley and the rise of fascism in America.
CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS (beyond “Burning Worlds”)
Interview with author Roxane Gay
Interview with author T.C. Boyle
Interview with author Sarah Manguso
Interview with critic and author Michelle Dean about her debut book Sharp
Interview with author Emma Donoghue
Interview with Emily Wilson, first woman to translate The Odyssey
Interview with editor Paul Hawken about his book of climate change solutions, Drawdown
Interview with conservation biologist Gleb Raygorodetsky about his climate change book The Archipelago of Hope
Interview with journalist Jeff Goodell about his sea-level rise book The Water Will Come
Interview with the editors of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Interview with Spanish author Jesús Carrasco
Interview with Ken Liu
Interview with late author Kit Reed
Interview with author Helen Phillips
Interview with author Jessa Crispin
Interview with Lisa Lucas, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation
More book reviews and interviews at The Chicago Review of Books
AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE (online)
“Politics, Playmaking Collide at the Edinburgh Fringe,” an essay about the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe festival
SYFY WIRE
Interview with Aaron Mahnke, creator of the podcast and TV show LORE
“6 Climate Change Books That Could Maybe Save the Earth (If You Read Them)”
SHELF AWARENESS
Interview with Cadwell Turnbull about The Lesson and accompanying review
Interview with Bryce Andrews about his new book that examines how Montana grizzlies and humans are learning to live with each other
Interview with writer Melanie Warner about her new book that takes a deep dive into the world of alternative medicine
Review of Meet Me at the Museum and interview with the novel’s author Anne Youngson
Interview with biologist and author of The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke
Interview with SciFi author Tom Sweterlitsch
Interview with the author of The Shadow of the Lions, Christopher Swann
Interview with author Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Interview with author and animal scientist Gregory Berns
Book reviews for Shelf Awareness
THE RUMPUS
Review of the short-story collection, Some Possible Solutions, by Helen Phillips
THE MILLIONS
Review of the novel, The Bricks That Built The Houses, by Kate Tempest
EXEUNT MAGAZINE
Theatre review: Anna Christie at the Wild Project (NYC)
Feature on Fringe NYC, 2016
HOWLROUND
“Why I Work in the Theatre,” essay on Albert Camus
Theater review of Brian Parks’s play Enterprise
Interview with Pig Iron Theatre
Interview with Shaun Neblett, founder of Changing Perceptions Theater
SF WEEKLY
“The Federal Government Actually Used to Fund San Francisco Theatrical Productions,” essay about SF’s 1930s Federal Theatre Project
Concert review: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt
Comedy review: comedian W. Kamau Bell at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Image Credit: Antique Mexican folk art painting, Jardin de los Siervas, Dulce Hogar, deer nuzzling, birds, blue, pink, red, purple, orange flowers, Hotel Belmar, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico
