Shouldn’t the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature? Lydia Millet Read Quote
For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states. Lydia Millet Read Quote
Indeed, the hype around ‘Watchmen’ is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn’t high culture, and it doesn’t pretend to be. It’s good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in. Lydia Millet Read Quote
Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America’s most treasured landscapes. Lydia Millet Read Quote
I advise, if you’re stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point – whether it’s for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within – get up from wherever you’re sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in. Lydia Millet Read Quote
Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don’t think it’s that rich a vein. Lydia Millet Read Quote
Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this. Lydia Millet Read Quote
Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country’s largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state’s gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin. Lydia Millet Read Quote
