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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Barry Glassner, "THE CULTURE OF FEAR"
Jackie MacMullan and Rafe Bartholomew, "BASKETBALL: A LOVE STORY" w/ Bill Plaschke
Karina Longworth, "SEDUCTION" w/ Mark Olsen
Elliott Kalan, "HORSE MEETS DOG"
Andrea Portes, "HENRY & EVA AND THE CASTLE ON THE CLIFF"
Wayétu Moore, "SHE WOULD BE KING" w/ Allison Noelle Conner
Kristen Tracy, "HALF_HAZARD" w/ Thomas Sadoski
Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore
Nicole Seymour, "BAD ENVIRONMENTALISM"
Éric Vuillard, "THE ORDER OF THE DAY" w/ Tom Lutz & Laurie Winer
Dan Lyons, "LAB RATS" w/ Karen Grigsby Bates
Tracy Daugherty, "LEAVING THE GAY PLACE"
Micah Perks, "TRUE LOVE AND OTHER DREAMS OF MIRACULOUS ESCAPE" w/ Ben Loory
Danielle Krysa, "A BIG IMPORTANT ART BOOK (NOW WITH WOMEN)"
Nick Zinner/Zachary Lipez/Stacy Wakefield, "131 DIFFERENT THINGS"
Jeff Jackson, "DESTROY ALL MONSTERS"
Nadya Tolokonnikova, "READ & RIOT" w/ Shepard Fairey
WHAT BOOKS presents Paul Lieber and Bill Mohr
Eileen Truax, "WE BUILT THE WALL"
Reyna Grande, "A DREAM CALLED HOME" w/ Kirin Khan
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