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July 23, 2018

Every Day We Live Is The Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters

McIntyre Amy

Every Day We Live Is the Future: Surviving in a City of Disasters.

By Douglas Haynes. University of Texas Press, 2017.

When she was only nine, Dayani Baldelomar left her Nicaraguan village with nothing more than a change of clothes. She was among tens of thousands of rural migrants to Managua in the 1980s and 1990s. After years of homelessness, Dayani landed in a shantytown called The Widows, squeezed between a drainage ditch and toxic Lake Managua. Her neighbor, Yadira Castellón, also migrated from the mountains. ...

Writing for Animals: New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire

McIntyre Amy

Writing for Animals: New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire. 

Editor John Yunker. Ashland Creek Press. August, 2018.

A unique anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writing.

Despite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views.

This book helps writers rethink their approach to animals, from crafting point of view to giving animals realistic voices. This collection of ...

Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones

McIntyre Amy

Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones. By Marc DiPaolo. State University of New York Press. 2018.

A broad examination of climate fantasy and science fiction, from The Lord of the Rings and the Narnia series to The Handmaid’s Tale and Game of Thrones.

Fellow Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis may have belonged to different branches of Christianity, but they both made use of a faith-based environmentalist ethic to counter the mid-twentieth-century’s triple threats of fascism, ...