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What we’re reading

Learning to love weeds: Beyond the War on Invasive Species

May 25, 2020 by John Yunker

Dandelions. Bull thistle. Kudzu. Japanese knotweed. Himalayan blackberry. From front lawns to woodlands, these are among the most despised of plant species. Species that, we are told, are hell-bent on …

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Categories Book Reviews, Chelsea Green Publishing, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Gardening, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Permaculture, Plants, What we're reading

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

Review: In The Art of Earth Architecture everything old is new again

October 17, 2023May 5, 2020 by John Yunker

As an architectural enthusiast, I have long admired Louis Khan. When I first visited San Diego years ago, I made sure to visit The Salk Institute. To see how concrete …

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Categories Architecture, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Earth Architecture, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Princeton Architectural Press, What we're reading

Book Review: The Great Derangement

May 2, 2020May 1, 2020 by Lauren Frick

With the future state of the planet in question, Amitav Ghosh explores the roles of literature and history in terms of their place in the climate crisis in his book …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press, What we're reading

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

In Animal City our painful past is still painfully present

April 8, 2020 by John Yunker

If I asked you to picture a “cow town,” you would probably picture a small town, surrounded by pasture, set far away from the big city. Yet in the 1800s, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Harvard University Press, History, Nonfiction, Pets, What we're reading

Eating meat in third person: The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

April 16, 2023March 25, 2020 by John Yunker

Published in 1969, The Edible Woman is Margaret Atwood’s first novel. As a vegan, I was curious to read this book because it features a protagonist, Marian, who discovers one …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, Veganism, What we're reading

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

The list of outlets for environmental writing turns 70

January 31, 2020 by John Yunker

As in there are now 70 of them. Thanks for everyone who contributed. We actually just received another contribution today so the list will be turning 71 shortly. The next …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Publishers, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Plants, Pollution, Trees, What we're reading, Writing Opportunities

What I’m reading in the New York Times

October 30, 2019 by John Yunker

A few articles that I bookmarked in the Times over the past two weeks… How Do the New Plant-Based Burgers Stack Up? We Taste-Tested Them I agree that Impossible Burgers …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Trees, Veganism, What we're reading

Review: Edge of Awe: Experiences of the Malheur-Steens Country

September 29, 2019September 24, 2019 by John Yunker

Funny how a word can change on you. When I moved to Oregon nearly a decade ago, I first heard about the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, about the Steens mountain …

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Categories Birds, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Essays, History, Hunting, Nonfiction, Oregon State University Press, What we're reading, Wolves
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