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Desert Notebooks
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time | Ben Ehrenreich
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Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. For readers of Robert Macfarlane or Elizabeth Rush, Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent— yet timeless and profound.
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Finished Desert Notebooks! Very poingiant. We discuss the book, the nature of fear, and some old ideas in the new episode, which happens to be out now! Enjoy.

https://anchor.fm/peter-murphy8/episodes/Episode-19-Weekly-ReadsShoe-Box-Ideas-e...

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Episode 15 was just released! We discuss these books, the Macarthur Genius Grant, and the ideal indie bookstore. Enjoy!
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https://anchor.fm/peter-murphy8/episodes/Episode-15-Weekly-Reads--Genius-Grants-...