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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Mona Awad, "BUNNY" w/ Anna Joy Springer
Ariana Reines, "A SAND BOOK"
Ocean Vuong, "ON EARTH WE'RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS" w/ Jade Chang
James Ellroy, "THIS STORM"
Alex Espinoza, "CRUISING" w/ David Francis
Sarah Gailey, "MAGIC FOR LIARS" w/ Mallory O'Meara
Ted Chiang, "EXHALATION"
Erik Davis, "HIGH WEIRDNESS"
Kathryn Scanlan, "AUG 9--FOG" w/ Amina Cain
Maria Hummel, "STILL LIVES" w/ Rebecca Morse
Jen Pastiloff, "ON BEING HUMAN" w/ Lidia Yuknavitch
Jacqueline Suskin, "THE EDGE OF THE CONTINENT"
Mason Funk, "THE BOOK OF PRIDE"
Josh Levin, "THE QUEEN" w/ Julia Turner
Malaka Gharib, "I WAS THEIR AMERICAN DREAM" w/ Michael Nailat
Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, "ORIGINAL PLUMBING"
Pat Thomas and Michael Heath, "MY WEEK BEATS YOUR YEAR"
Sarah Pinsker, "SOONER OR LATER EVERYTHING FALLS INTO THE SEA" w/ Rebecca Roanhorse
Xuan Juliana Wang, "HOME REMEDIES" w/ Justin Torres
Julie Orringer, "THE FLIGHT PORTFOLIO", w/ Sarah Manguso
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