A new map of Area X from the revised, expanded edition of Wonderbook. The two writers talked together about technology, fear, imagination, and what it takes to move beyond the bounds of the probable into the possible. Her prose has appeared in Catapult, The Rumpus, and The Toast. She’s the author of six books of poetry, most recently FILL: A Collection (Trembling Pillow Press, 2016), a collaboration with Erika Howsare about waste.

The concrete expression of this influence appears in her essay from Essay Press, “ Time to Be Something Other Than Human.” Schapira has been offering Climate Anxiety Counseling to passersby for five years in Providence (and environs), where she also lives, writes, teaches, runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series, and is currently trying to stop a natural gas liquefaction plant. Kate Schapira, a lecturer in English at Brown University, has been thinking and writing under the influence of Area X for three years. He also explored non-human minds in his novel Borne and ideas about eco-storytelling in the revised, expanded edition of Wonderbook, a creative writing guide. In a time of rapid and drastic change in the world, can stories make a corresponding change in people’s thinking-and their actions?Īrea X, the zone of wild transformation at the center of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, has a way of infiltrating, unsettling and altering the minds of the people who read it.

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