Interconnected Ecologies: A Conversation with Kathryn Savage, by Jennifer Croft Interviews [email protected] Wed, 07/19/2023 - 13:29 Kathryn Savage / Photo by Melissa LukenbaughKathryn Savage’s Groundglass (Coffee House Press, 2022) explores the health harms of living in a polluted world. The essay, closer to poetic elegy than journalism, begins after her father has died from a type of cancer that occurs at higher rates in polluted areas. Savage grew up in a fence-line neighborhood in the industrial Midwest, neighborhoods also called “sacrifice zones” because living adjacent to metal recyclers, power plants, and tar-shingle factories can harm one’s health. Her essay is attentive to language and keeps company with Maggie Nelson’s lyric investigation into the Superfund pollution at New York’s Gowanus Canal, one of America’s most polluted waterways, in Nelson’s genre-defying Something Bright, Then Holes. Groundglass is a reckoning with the stakes of living in a toxic world, both personal and environmental. I spoke with Savage about the ideas that inform her debut and the process of writing it. Jennifer Croft: What is groundglass, and how did you come to the term as your title? Kathryn Savage: Groundglass is an ill-defined small swell of cells, seen on CT scans and X-rays. The hazy spots were found on my father’s scans, by his oncologist. Groundglass opacities can indicate the presence of cancer cells—or not. Literally and... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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Interviews Veronica Esposito Photo by Camila Valdés Megan McDowell has translated many contemporary authors from Latin America and Spain, including Alejandro Zambra, Samanta Schweblin, and Lina Meruane. Shortlisted for the Man Booker... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-06-22 15:20:00 UTC ]
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GIVEN THE LONG TRADITION of memoirs written by men of a certain age and stature looking back on their life and accomplishments, the surge in memoirs by women in recent years has been quite a breakthrough. What We Carry, the new memoir by Maya Shanbhag Lang, is nothing short of radical, not just... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-06-21 12:30:36 UTC ]
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Kathryn Hind, Stacey Halls and Okechukwu Nzelu are among the winners of this year's £100,000 Society of Author Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-17 22:31:09 UTC ]
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Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. Host Michele Cobb speaks with narrator Julia Whelan, one of AudioFile’s 2020 Golden Voices,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-06-08 09:15:30 UTC ]
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Interviews Andrea Bryant Published by Cornell University Press in 2019 and awarded the 2019 American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th and21st Centuries), Stephanie Malia Hom’s Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-05-26 12:48:05 UTC ]
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A COOKBOOK IS a kind of invitation to its author’s table. So it is with Irina Georgescu’s book Carpathia: Food from the Heart of Romania, which draws overdue attention to the food of her native country. Of course, the culinary world is crowded and chaotic at the best of times. Turmoil such as it... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
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Emme Muñiz, the daughter of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, shares her daily prayers in ‘Lord Help Me,’ a picture book from Crown Books for Young Readers/Random House Children’s Books releasing on Sept. 29. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Interviews Veronica Esposito Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is the co-owner of Riffraff, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and a Fulbright... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-05-18 18:20:27 UTC ]
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IT IS ONLY IN the second half of Ellen O’Connell Whittet’s poignant and exquisite memoir about ballet (and other causes of female pain), What You Become in Flight, that it dawns on the reader — or on this reader, at least — that she’s invoking the word “flight” in two senses: the balletic sense... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-05-07 17:00:08 UTC ]
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On this episode of Rekindled, award-winning author Vanessa Hua talks with Amy Meyerson about her new book, The Imperfects, a story about a priceless inheritance that leads one family on a life-altering pursuit of the truth. Meyerson talks about the process of researching for her new novel, using... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-06 20:00:35 UTC ]
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Independent children's and YA publisher Firefly Press will publish a second middle-grade Crater Lake novel by Jennifer Killick. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-06 17:15:35 UTC ]
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We asked 16 authors to pick their favorite books about mother-child relationships. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-06 07:46:44 UTC ]
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While other book releases are being pushed back, “Big Summer” was moved up, because it’s just the escape we need right now. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-05 14:14:13 UTC ]
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Two celebrated memoirists of mental illness—Marin Sardy, author of The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia, and Sarah C. Townsend, author of Setting the Wire: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis—discuss writing, families, and the struggle to make meaning out of madness. * Sarah Townsend:... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-05-01 08:47:51 UTC ]
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I FIRST CAME INTO CONTACT with Douglas Glover when he was the editor of a literary magazine I admired very much, Numéro Cinq. I persuaded him to take me on as a writer by offering him an interview with Gabriel Josipovici, whose work I knew we both loved. I’d become interested in the creative... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-04-20 19:00:19 UTC ]
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On this episode of Rekindled, Oscar Villalon, editor in chief of ZYZZYVA, speaks with author and illustrator Lisa Brown. Brown’s latest book is called Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels, in which she distills long classics (Proust, Madame Bovary, Jonathan Franzen, etc) into one... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-10 20:00:17 UTC ]
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Interviews Veronica Esposito John Keene is the author of Counternarratives, which received an American Book Award and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. He is also the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is the... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-03-30 15:27:14 UTC ]
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Interviews Tiffany Hawk In 2012, at sixteen years old, Joshua Wong and the pro-democracy student group he founded took on the Hong Kong government, mobilized more than one hundred thousand student protesters, and surprised the world by successfully... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2020-03-23 16:00:04 UTC ]
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Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. AudioFile’s Josephine Reed spoke with author and National Ambassador for Young People’s... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-03-10 08:48:25 UTC ]
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