How can environmental writers craft emotionally involving stories from disasters that are slow-moving and attritional, rather than explosive and spectacular? This is a particularly pressing question for our age, as the news cycle spins ever faster, as the media venerates spectacle, and as public policy is increasingly shaped around what are perceived as immediate needs.
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Tag Archives: Rob Nixon
Slow violence and environmental storytelling
June 13, 2011 – 1:39 pm
In defense of ignorance: Rob Nixon at the MLA on making room for readers
December 31, 2009 – 5:20 pm
Can less be more? The value of ignorance came up this week at the Modern Language Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia during a session titled “Literature and Journalism.” Rob Nixon, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, talked principally about nonfiction writing and scholars making forays into journalism. But some of his ideas are instructive for [...]
