Wild Authors: Renato Redentor Constantino
In this feature, I look at, and re-enjoy, Agam, a 2014 book project from the Philippines. Thanks very much to Redentor Constantino, from
climate change
Wild Authors: Edward Stanton
In this feature, I cover the novel Wide as the Wind, by author Edward Stanton, who landed on the idea for his
Wild Authors: Fábio Fernandes
I’ve recently been enjoying Adam Kirsch’s The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century. In his book, Kirsch states: The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to other kinds of fiction, but as a perspective that governs the interpretation of experience. In this way, it is faithful to the way the global is actually lived – not through the abolition of place, but as a theme by which place is mediated. Life lived here is experienced in its profound and often unsettling connections with life lived elsewhere, and everywhere. The local gains dignity, and significance, insofar as it can be seen as a part of a worldwide phenomenon. One of the things eco-fiction is concerned about is the environmental destruction of the planet. Global eco-fiction lifts the gaze above the norm and into a worldly perspective in which authors and artists understand that ecological collapse is both a global concern and a local one. In essence,
Wild Authors: Ned Tillman
I continue my spotlight focus on authors whose novels are aimed toward a young adult and/or teen audience. These books might
Ponderings on Population
In honor of the UN’s World Population Day, I reflect on my relationship to the topic of global population. My
Wild Authors: Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler, an African American science fiction writer, was born in 1947 and died in 2006. A Hugo and Nebula