LOVE IN THE ANTROPOCENE

“I started reading and couldn't stop. ... Part of what's mesmerizing about climate change is its vastness across both space and time. Jamieson, by elucidating our past failures and casting doubt on whether we'll ever do any better, situates it within a humanely scaled context.”—Jonathan Franzen, in the New Yorker, about Dale Jamieson's last book

Co-written by Bonnie Nadzam, novelist (winner of 2011 first novel prize from NYC's Center for Fiction), and Dale Jamieson (professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University and director of the Animal Studies Initiative there). A work of fiction rooted in fact: six stories imagining aspects of a world transformed by human action. This collaboration between philosopher and artist is a unique and thrilling attempt to depict the era of the anthropocene, when nature is subject to human manipulation, and to communicate its consequences in a viscerally understandable way.

Bonnie Nadzam's first novel Lamb won the Center for Fiction's first novel award in 2011, and her second novel, Lions, is forthcoming from Grove Press in 2016.