Going to Seed, Essays on Idleness, Nature, & Sustainable Work
By Kate J. Neville Texas Tech University Press, 2024, The Sowell Emerging Writers Prize Winner I read Going to Seed right before the U.S election, when I was full of …
Climate Change
The best environmental books we’ve read in 2024
We published 30 book reviews this year and read many more. And out of all the books we’ve read, here are a handful of our favorites. You’ll find a mix …
New and forthcoming environmental books (December 2024)
This is the last “what’s new” post of 2024. Plenty of new books to check out! Happy reading — and happy new year! Crimes Against Nature: New Stories of Environmental …
The most popular book reviews and pages of 2024
More than 35,000 people from more than 100 countries visited EcoLit Books this year. And this post shows where they spent most of their time. Here are the top 25 …
New and forthcoming environmental books (November 2024)
I’m happy to share the latest assortment of environmental and animal books that have come our way… please check them out! Birds Beasts and Bedlam By Derek Gow Author of Bringing …
Book Review: Arroyo Circle
Guest book review by Gene Helfman. In Arroyo Circle, JoeAnn Hart deftly weaves a tale with multiple threads. As the story develops, the different characters become incorporated into the fabric through …
New and forthcoming environmental books (October 2024)
As we enter fall we (in the Northern Hemisphere) can be grateful for reasons to stay inside — and read. Which leads me to this list of new(ish) and upcoming …
Book Review: Honeymoons in Temporary Locations
What will a post-climate-disaster America look like? In Ashley Shelby’s short story collection, Honeymoons in Temporary Locations, the results range from devastating to absurd to all-too-plausible. This trifecta is what makes Shelby’s …
ARROYO CIRCLE: A Q&A with JoeAnn Hart
Float author JoeAnn Hart is one of our most prolific Ashland Creek Press authors. In addition to her pre-Float novel, Addled, she is the author of a memoir and an …
Book Review: The Burning Earth, A History
Reading non-fiction books about climate change has, over the years, come to feel like a form of masochism. Rarely do I come away feeling optimistic about the future of this …
New and forthcoming environmental books (September 2024)
Here are a number of recently published or about-to-be-published books that have come across our desks. Love Story with Birds By Derek Furr “Let us be at a loss for …