Roy Scranton is the author of We're Doomed. Now What?, War Porn and Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. He is the co-editor of Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War. Scranton's journalism, essays and fiction have been published in The Nation, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Boston Review and elsewhere.
He holds a Ph.D. in English from Princeton and an M.A. from the New School for Social Research and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame.
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Recordings
Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
May 15, 2020
How are writers using stories to help readers – and themselves – process the experience of climate change? Author Jenny Offill felt a “creeping sense…
Climate One TV: The Uninhabitable Earth and We're Doomed Now What
November 25, 2019 According to David Wallace-Wells, we’re cooked — literally. In his new book The Uninhabitable Earth, Wallace-Wells explores how climate change will…
Fire and Water: A Year of Climate Conversations
December 7, 2018
From fires and floods to hurricanes and hot temperatures, 2018 put climate on the front page in ways it hadn’t been before. Yet amidst the disruption…
We're Doomed. Now What?
July 11, 2018
Can changing our consciousness hold off the climate apocalypse? When we think about the enormity of climate change and what it’s doing to our planet,…