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S3E38: Where are the campy cli-fi series? Why do we only have literary climate fiction?!—w/ Daniel Backer, author

Reversing Climate Change

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The Importance of a Name in a Novel

"I like genre fiction, bad books, bad books where there are innumerable sequels," he says. "There's a big issue with a lot of serious literature is that they shirk so many of what make it work." The Road by Cormac McCarthy can be impenetrably difficult to read because the book is 700 pages long and you have no metric for success.

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