Are YA Dystopian Novels Breeding Conservatives?
The Harry Potter series might have been helping make young kids more open and accepting of diversity, but a new crop of young adult novels might be push kids in the opposite direction of the political...
View ArticleBack to the Present
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? By the time we’ve figured it out, we’ve already gotten there. Examining a trend toward futuristic fiction, Bill Morris looks at the near future...
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg
Things I will never forget about Find Me: the website on which you learn whether your loved ones are alive or dead is WeAreSorryForYourLoss.com; a plastic rabbit mask and the defeated, injured eye...
View ArticleThe Dystopian Present
For the Guardian, Megan Quibell argues that climate change has changed dystopian fiction, as many recent dystopian works rely on a “catalyst” that stems from “the destruction of the environment.” The...
View ArticleLanguage: “A Barometer of Society’s Health”
For the BBC, Hephzibah Anderson explores the work of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R. Martin, two authors who invented languages to color their fictional worlds. In addition, the article considers how...
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The Last Book I Loved: Station Eleven
Station Eleven is a love letter to technology, one I never could have written myself.Love letters require distance, and when it comes to me and technology, I can’t put any distance between us. I...
View ArticleA Dark and Stormy Dystopia
For the New Yorker, Kathryn Schulz analyzes “meteorological activity in fiction,” and how recent questions about climate change has led to a reemergence of weather related fiction, particularly in...
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The Luxury of Choice: Talking with Joanne Ramos
Joanne Ramos and I first met in a Ditmas writing workshop led by Rachel Sherman six years ago. There, Ramos shared the initial chapters of a novel, and her enormous talent clobbered me. The chapters...
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I Wrote a Road Trip through the Apocalypse, Then We Drove It
First, the basics. We bought a big and well-reviewed cooler, rated to keep food cold with no refrigeration for days. I packed children’s zippered pencil cases with masks, hand sanitizer, and plastic...
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