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Midge Raymond

Midge Raymond is a co-founder of Ashland Creek Press. She is the author of the novels Floreana and My Last Continent, the award-winning short story collection Forgetting English, and, with John Yunker, the suspense novel Devils Island.

Book Review: Irreplaceable by Julian Hoffman

March 29, 2021 by Midge Raymond

In Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, Julian Hoffman shows us endangered habitats and the creatures who inhabit them—as well as the humans who are fighting to save …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Sustainability, Trees, University of Georgia Press

Book Review: MIGRATIONS by Charlotte McConaghy

September 16, 2024January 11, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Migrations is a stunningly beautiful novel about a woman who has always been running—from her childhood, her mistakes, her memories—and this time, she’s traveling from Greenland to Antarctica, following the …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Eco-mystery, Endangered Species, Fiction, Oceans

Book Review: The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan

January 1, 2021 by Midge Raymond

There’s nothing like a new year to inspire lifestyle changes, and there is no better time than now to pick up The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan by Jasmin Singer …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, Hachette Book Group, Nonfiction, Sustainability, Veganism

Book Review: The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals by Becky Mandelbaum

October 14, 2020September 29, 2020 by Midge Raymond

While the title of Becky Mandelbaum’s The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals may indicate this is a novel about animals, it is very much more a human novel. Set primarily …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Book Review: Phoenix Zones by Hope Ferdowsian

June 30, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives by Hope Ferdowsian, MD, is among the many compassionate, powerful, inspiring books the world needs now. This slender book about trauma …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, History, Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press, Veganism, Wolves

Book review: PROTEST KITCHEN by Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina

May 27, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Carol J. Adams, best known for her groundbreaking book The Sexual Politics of Meat, has teamed up with dietician Virginia Messina to create Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, Nonfiction, Veganism

Announcing the winner of the Siskiyou Prize

April 19, 2021May 8, 2020 by Midge Raymond

We are delighted to announce that Athena E. Copenhaver is the winner of the 2019 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, for her novel MY DAYS OF DARK GREEN EUPHORIA.  The award’s …

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Categories Awards, Contest, For Writers, What we're reading, Writing Residency

Book Review: Land of Wondrous Cold

April 23, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Gillen D’Arcy Wood’s Land of Wondrous Cold combines the stories of three lesser known (but no less important) Antarctic explorers with continental history and future implications on a rapidly warming planet Earth. In …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, Nonfiction, Oceans, Princeton University Press

Interview with BARN 8 author Deb Olin Unferth

April 19, 2020April 15, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Thanks so much to Deb Olin Unferth for chatting with us about her new novel, Barn 8, released last month from Graywolf Press. EcoLit Books: For your article “Cage Wars,” published …

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Categories Animal Rights, For Writers, Graywolf, Q&A, Veganism, What we're reading

Book Review: Deb Olin Unferth’s BARN 8

April 19, 2020April 15, 2020 by Midge Raymond

It’s rare to find a novel whose plot centers around animal rescue, and rarer still to encounter one that is deftly written and gets it (mostly) right—which is among the …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Fiction, Graywolf, Veganism

Three Ways to Disappear: An interview with author Katy Yocom

March 5, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Last year, we published Three Ways to Disappear, winner of the 2016 Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature (it was also a finalist for the Dzanc Books Disquiet Open Borders Book …

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Categories Animal Rights, Ashland Creek Press, Conservation, Endangered Species, Hunting, Q&A, What we're reading
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