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Are you passionate about climate change and want to engage with the topic through a more literary perspective? Or an avid reader who has just started getting more interested in reading and discussing climate change/environment-related books with like-minded folks? If so, welcome! You're in the right place. Virtual/online-friendly Meetup!
We read a combination of nonfiction and fiction books related to climate change and the environment and meet once a month to discuss them (some past books include Braiding Sweetgrass, Weather, The Value of a Whale). We also do periodic movie discussions to take a break between books (usually films available on Netflix).
I'm based in LA and our meetings are run on Pacific Standard Time (usually Saturdays at 11 am PST), but since we meet virtually over Zoom, members from all over the globe are welcome!
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See all- September Climate/Environment Book Club - The Nature BookLink visible for attendees
Hi climate/book friends!
As we head into the fall, I'd love for us to explore new ways of connecting with nature. So, our September book club pick is The Nature Book by Tom Comitta — a beautifully written work of "posthuman fiction" created from a collage of hundreds of other books.
You can find the book used on ThriftBooks and BetterWorldBooks & new on Coffee House Press, Bookshop (which now has ebooks!), Libro.fm (audiobooks to support local bookstores!) & elsewhere like your local public library.
Reviews of the book appear in The New Yorker and Los Angeles Review of Books.
A short synopsis of the book from Coffee House Press:
#### Part sweeping evocation of Earth’s rhythms, part literary archive, part post-human novel, The Nature Book collages descriptions of the natural world into a singular symphonic paean to the planet.
What does our nature writing say about us, and more urgently, what would it say without us? Tom Comitta investigates these questions and more in The Nature Book, a “literary supercut” that arranges writing about the natural world from three hundred works of fiction into a provocative re-envisioning of the novel.
With fiction’s traditional background of flora and fauna brought to the fore, people and their structures disappear, giving center stage to animals, landforms, and weather patterns—honored in their own right rather than for their ambient role in human drama. The Nature Book challenges the confines of anthropocentrism with sublime artistic vision, traversing mountains, forests, oceans, and space to shift our attention toward the magnificently complex and interconnected world around us.
Hope to see you then!
