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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Sarah Dimick, "Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Description: As climate change alters seasons around the globe, literature registers and responds to shifting environmental time. A writer and a fisher track the distribution of beach trash in Chennai, chronicling disruptions in seasonal winds and currents along the Bay of Bengal. An essayist in the northeastern United States observes that maple sap flows earlier now, prompting him to reflect on gender and seasons of transition. Poets affiliated with small island nations arrive in Paris for the United Nations climate summit, revamping the occasional poem to attest to intensifying storm seasons across the Pacific.In Unseasonable: Climate Change i...