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Two National Book Awards finalists take on climate extremes
Two National Book Awards finalists take on climate extremes
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Dec 1, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Today's episode features interviews with two authors whose works are 2023 National Book Awards finalists — one fiction, one nonfiction. Both broach the topic of climate realities, though their books take place hundreds of years apart. First, NPR's Scott Simon chats with Hanna Pylväinen about The End of Drum-Time, which opens with a startling earthquake and centers an 1850s community of native Sámi reindeer herders in the Scandinavian Arctic. Then, Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd asks journalist John Vaillant about Fire Weather, which covers the 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray, Canada.
Released:
Dec 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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