15: Emily Raboteau and Omar El Akkad Tell a Different Kind of Climate Change Story

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, novelists Emily Raboteau and Omar El Akkad discuss telling the stories of climate change with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell. Raboteau talks about her recent NYRB article, "Climate Signs," and El Akkad shares how his history as a journalist connects to his novel, American War,  

Readings for the Episode:

●   “Climate Signs” by Emily Raboteau, New York Review Daily

●   The Professor's Daughter by Emily Raboteau

●   Searching for Zion by Emily Raboteau

●   American War by Omar El Akkad

●   Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins

●   “Flying Cars Could Save us from Climate Change,” by Jen Christensen, CNN

●   “Climate Change: European Team to drill for ‘oldest’ ice in Antarctica” by Jonathan Amos, BBC

●   “Atchafalaya” by John McPhee, The New Yorker

●   The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

●   “There's so much CO2 in the atmosphere that planting trees can no longer save us,” by Rob Ludacer and Jessica Orwig, Business Insider

●   "Young Readers Ask: The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells," by Geronimo LaValle, Orion Magazine

●   “As We Approach the City,” by Mik Awake, The Common

●   “The Climate Museum Launches Pun-Filled Art Installations Across the City,” by Katie Brown, Medium/NYU Local

●   “‘Hand that’s feeding the world is getting bit.’ Farmers cope with floods, trade war” by Crystal Thomas and Bryan Lowery, The Kansas City Star

●   “Senator uses Star Wars posters, image of Reagan riding a dinosaur to blast Green New Deal,” by Christal Hayes, USA Today

●   Learning to Die in the Anthropocene by Roy Scranton

●   Horizon, by Barry Lopez

●   The End of Nature, by Bill McKibben

Guests:

·    Emily Raboteau

·    Omar El Akkad

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