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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Addie Tsai, "DEAR TWIN" w/ C.B. Lee
Jung Young Moon, "SEVEN SAMURAI SWEPT AWAY IN A RIVER"
Dan Goldman, "CHASING ECHOES"
Franny Howe, "LOVE AND I" w/ Martha Ronk
Liska Jacobs, "THE WORST KIND OF WANT" w/ Allie Rowbottom
THE SCIENCE OF POETRY: A READING
Josh Kun, "THE AUTOGRAPH BOOK OF L.A."
Alex Dimitrov, "ASTRO POETS" w/ Melissa Broder
Jonathan Blum, "THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES"
Helen Shewolfe Tseng & Beatrix Gravesguard, "THE ASTROLOGICAL GRIMOIRE" w/ Yumi Sakugawa
Roshanak Kheshti,"WENDY CARLOS'S SWITCHED-ON BACH" w/ Karen Tongson
Monique Truong, "THE SWEETEST FRUITS" w/ Diep Tran
Amanda Yates Garcia, "INITIATED" w/ Pam Grossman
Mimi Lok, "LAST OF HER NAME" w/ Amelia Gray
Cyrus Grace Dunham, "A YEAR WITHOUT A NAME"
Molly Lambert, Geoff Dyer and Tosh Berman discuss "I USED TO BE CHARMING: THE REST OF EVE BABITZ"
Hanif Abdurraqib, "A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER"
Aziza Barnes, "THE BLIND PIG" w/ Yesika Salgado
Liana Finck,"EXCUSE ME" w/ Charlie Hankin
Mike Pearl, "THE DAY IT FINALLY HAPPENS" w/ Brian Merchant
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