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An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. Were Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time.. Our moment is one of alarming and bewildering change - the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what?. Were Doomed. Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss, from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation. Whether writing about sailing through the melting Arctic, preparing for Houstons next big storm, watching Star Wars, or going back to the streets of Baghdad he once patrolled as a soldier, Roy Scranton handles his subjects with the same electric, philosophical, demotic touch that he brought to his groundbreaking New York Times essay, "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene."



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Roy Scranton

Roy Scranton is the author of TOTAL MOBILIZATION: WORLD WAR II AND AMERICAN LITERATURE (University of Chicago Press, 2019) , I HEART OKLAHOMA! (Soho Press, 2019) , WE'RE DOOMED. NOW WHAT? (Soho Press, 2018) , WAR PORN (Soho Press, 2016) , and LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE (City Lights, 2015) . He earned an MA from the New School for Social Research and a PhD in English from Princeton, and has been awarded a Whiting Humanities Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His work has appeared widely, including in the BEST SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2014, and has been called "fierce and provocative" (Elizabeth Kolbert) , "elegant, erudite, heartfelt & wise" (Amitav Ghosh) , "forceful and unsettling" (Michiko Kakutani) , and "brilliant" (Jeff VanderMeer) . [photo credit Ola Kjelbye]



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