how is Rose Betts the most majestic combo of Imogen Heap and the Decemberists? And how am I only learning about her now? I’m obsessed.

Like my man Zevon says, “If I leave you, it doesn’t mean I love you any less. Keep me in your heart for a while.” We’ll miss you Bon. You were the best cat anyone could ask for.

Colleagues and fellow scholars, here’s info on a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies that I’m coediting with Matthew Gannon and @katemarshall.bsky.social: “Long Modernism, Altered Natures,” cfp below—send us your abstracts! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

I love Watertown

My newest piece on Peele’s NOPE and the McManus bros’ THE BLOCK ISLAND SOUND is out in SFF&TV, along with several other banger essays. Check it out here (if you don’t have access, dm me) liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18...

Let’s be real, LLM is just way too similar to MLM.

Sometimes, the way a draft of something gets written is 37 false starts and aborted efforts and then BAM. 7500 words in two days.

The upshot of extractive capitalism is a house of mirrors where what’s below is above, as we’re crushed within centuries by what was buried over epochs.

The frontier is alive and well in the world-ecology.

My review of Sarah Dimick’s tremendous new book, UNSEASONABLE, is out at ISLE. Academic friends and fellow environmentalists, check out Sarah’s awesome work! academic.oup.com/isle/advance...

Stoked and stacked for IMAGINING CRISIS IN 21C AMERICAN LITERATURE in the fall!

“Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the Great Depression, Shadow Ticket follows Hicks McTaggart, a detective who is tasked with finding the heiress of a cheese fortune.” I mean, that tracks. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

ngl it ain’t easy reading Karen Russell’s THE ANTIDOTE when I feel the urge to write down notes about every. single. page.

I can vouch, this book is 🔥

ummmmm clipping. dropping a Neuromancer concept album? I will inhale this shit www.clashmusic.com/reviews/clip...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 20: Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 19: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (Karen Tei Yamashita)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 18: Blindsight (Peter Watts)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 17: Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 16: Eleutheria (Allegra Hyde)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 15: Gravity’s Rainbow

This. Sucks. C’mon Lions.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 14: The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula Le Guin)

OK I’m almost done with Jeff VanderMeer’s new Area X novel, Absolution, and why the hell is this final section written as though it’s being narrated by Raoul Duke?

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 13: The Names (Don DeLillo)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 12: Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 11: Gathering Evidence (Martin MacInnes)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 10: A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (Bill Brown)

Parable of the Sower is a brilliant novel, but it’s important to remember that Butler was writing in the wake of the LA riots and Rodney King. As prescient as the book is about climate change, it’s also very much about structural inequities and tensions spilling over into regional violence.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 9: The Cosmic Web: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the 20th Century (N. Katherine Hayles)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 8: Waste Away: Working and Living with a North American Landfill (Joshua Reno)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 7: Objectivity (Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 6: Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Dystopia and Other Science Fictions (Fredric Jameson)

Writing the syllabus for my Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel course this spring, and planning to tell my students there’s a pedagogical and a political dimension to having no electronics in class. Focusing all our attention on a novel forces us to SLOW DOWN.

Not only did Erica and Anna’s cluster allow me to write about a show I love, but it also marks the first time I’ve written about film/TV! Really happy with how it turned out, and excited to do more of this work in the future. post45.org/2024/12/noth...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 5: Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (William Cronon)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 4: Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction (Kate Marshall)

The hugest thanks to Erica and Anna for all the work they put into this. Psyched to join so many awesome people for this cluster.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 3: Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Ursula Heise)

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 2: The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Book 1: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Rob Nixon)

With 2025 days away, I’m quitting the other place (mostly a hellscape at this point) and setting up shop here. Nice to see so many familiar faces! ☺️