![]() ![]() Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Octavia Butler, Barbara Kingsolver, Margaret Atwood, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Jeff VanderMeer all come to mind. I think it’s hard to write a novel in general! But there are brilliant novelists who are writing all about climate change with enormous insight and skill. When I spoke with Julia about this, I asked if she thought it was hard to write “about” climate change, and she said: I read about the novel in Michigan Daily, where writer Emily Yang spent the first paragraph talking about novels about climate change and the difficulty of writing them. ![]() ![]() Disappearing Earth was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2019 and a national bestseller, among other accolades. It was a pleasure to chat with Julia Phillips about her debut novel Disappearing Earth, the first edition of which was published by Knopf in May 2019. This month’s spotlight goes to a country not showcased before in this series: Russia, specifically the Kamchatka peninsula, which dips down from the far eastern coastline of the country and lies between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea. ![]()
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