“What Does a Million Years Mean to You?” New booklist essay up at Literary Hub
June 4, 2025 § Leave a comment
Very happy to have this piece up at LitHub, one of my favorite literary on-line venues.
Excerpt below:
“The deep-time perspective of all these books has given me a better vantage point on the current moment, not only as it relates to the trajectory of the human species but also to the long and varied story of life on Earth. While I do fear that humanity’s circumstances are likely to get worse before they get better, the zoomed-out perspective of deep time has given me surprising new grounds for optimism.
To paraphrase Marcia Bjornerud in Timefulness, it’s not the end of nature we’re looking at, but the end of the illusion that we’re not part of nature.”
Read the whole piece here.
Six great literary post-apocalypse novels (+ one bonus rec)
November 7, 2024 § Leave a comment
Was happy to have been asked recently to provide a novel recommendation list for Booklisti, a new site to help readers discover new books through the creation and sharing of lists. I love sites like this because they’re great tools for fostering literary community and for spreading the word on good literature, so I was happy to create not one but two lists! This is the first of two.
Tim Weed 