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In September 2017, David Simon, creator of
The Wire, tweeted a photograph of golfers calmly lining up their putts on a Florida course as wildfires raged in the background. “In the pantheon of visual metaphors for America today, this is the money shot,” he wrote of the picture, which was taken by an amateur photographer who spotted the photo-op as she was about to skydive out of a plane. Everything about this story – the image, the circumstances – seems stranger than fiction.
A year before Simon’s tweet, in a landmark polemic,
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh had questioned why so few writers – himself included – were tackling the world’s most pressing issue in their fiction. But now, as extreme weather swirls around the globe, melting glaciers, burning forests, flooding districts and annihilating species, the climate emergency has brought the unimaginable into our d
Event description Brave New World : Dystopian Fiction event - Join Sarah Davis-Goff, Niall Bourke and Oana Aristide in conversation with Rick O Shea About this event Brave New World : Are we all currently living in a dystopian world?! It might really have felt like this over the past year. Yet, Sarah, Niall & Oana have been among the new wave of writers who have explored and succeeded in this genre of writing over the past few years!
So let s have a look at dystopian fiction and its place in literature! Join us at Listowel Writers Week for what should be a fascinating and topical event, featuring Sarah Davis-Goff, Niall Bourke and Oana Aristide in conversation with Rick O’Shea.
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