As much of the world continues to boil and burn in a La Niña heat wave, we stay with the theme of how literature responds to climate change. A DP correspondent steered us to Amy Brady’s consistently engaging Burning Worlds column in the Chicago Review of Books, and in particular to her interview with poet Megan Hunter regarding her first novel, The End We Start From.
Hunter’s replies to Brady are excerpted below, followed by a passage from Ernst Bloch and an image from the studio of Antii Laitinen.
On making dystopia personal:
On floods at the beginning and at the end:
On finding the scraps of hope:
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From Ernst Bloch’s introduction to The Principle of Hope:
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And finally, a drowned selfie:
SELF-PORTRAIT ON THE SWAMP
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