We stare at our phones. We keep multiple tabs open. Our chats and conversations are full of the phrase “Did you see?” The feeling that we’re living in the worst of times seems to be intensifying, alongside a desire to know precisely how bad things have gotten—and each new catastrophe distracts us from the last.
The Unreality of Memory collects provocative, searching essays on disaster culture, climate anxiety, and our mounting collective sense of doom. In this new collection, acclaimed poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert explores our obsessions with disasters past and future, from the sinking of the Titanic to Chernobyl, from witch hunts to the plague. These deeply researched, prophetic meditations question how the world will end—if indeed it will—and why we can’t stop fantasizing about it.
Can we avoid repeating history? Can we understand our moment from inside the moment? With The Unreality of Memory, Gabbert offers a hauntingly perceptive analysis of our new ways of being and a means of reconciling ourselves to this unreal new world.
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Produced by Maddie Gobbo & Michael Kowaleski
Theme: "I Love All My Friends," a new, unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.
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SKYLIT: Pedro Mairal, "THE WOMAN FROM URUGUAY" w/ Jennifer Croft
SKYLIT: Allyson Brantley, "BREWING A BOYCOTT"
SKYLIT: Marissa Levien, "THE WORLD GIVES WAY"
SKYLIT: Brenda Miller, "A BRAIDED HEART" w/ Susanne Paola Antonetta
SKYLIT: Beth Morgan, "A TOUCH OF JEN"
SKYLIT: Calvin Leonard, "FOR THE LOVE OF FILM"
SKYLIT: "NEPANTLA FAMILIAS" Group Reading
SKYLIT: UC Riverside MFA Panel
SKYLIT: Christina Catherine Martinez, "AESTHETICAL RELATIONS" w/ Isabel Slone
SKYLIT: Daphne A. Brooks, "LINER NOTES FOR THE REVOLUTION" w/ Lynell George
SKYLIT: Joseph Rodriguez, "LAPD: 1994" w/ Ruben Martinez
SKYLIT: Joie Davidow, "AN UNOFFICIAL MARRIAGE" w/ Esmerelda Santiago
SKYLIT: Miriam Feldman, "HE CAME IN WITH IT" w/ Jen Pastiloff
SKYLIT: Emma Ramadan, "IN CONCRETE"
SKYLIT: Claire Boyles, "SITE FIDELITY" w/ Zac Hug
SKYLIT: Katie Love, "TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE"
SKYLIT: WAYFINDING Poets
SKYLIT: David Leo Rice, "DRIFTER" w/ Matthew Spellberg
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SKYLIT: Laura LeMoon, "A THOUSAND LITTLE DEATHS"
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