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Podcast: In the Weeds
Episode: The Apocalyptic #2: Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery
Description: In the second episode of my series on the apocalyptic, I talk to Brian Francis Slattery about his novel Lost Everything, which won the 2012 Philip K. Dick award. The novel follows two friends on a mission up the Susquehanna River, in an apocalyptic not-too-distant future, in which climate change and civil war have transformed the Northeast of the United States into a tropical wasteland, replete with monkeys climbing over post-industrial ruins.Slattery and I discuss the canoe trip he took along the Susquehanna with two biologist friends to research the book; his discussions with a r...