{"id":18591,"date":"2016-09-29T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=18591"},"modified":"2016-09-29T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T18:50:07","slug":"the-everending-earth-or-how-the-world-is-always-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18591","title":{"rendered":"The Everending earth, or how the world is always ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Shields<\/strong><\/a> will talk about “The everending Earth, or how the world is always ending<\/strong><\/a>” on Mon., Oct. 3, at 7pm<\/strong> in the Irvin L. Young Auditorium. It’s part of a lecture series<\/a> sponsored by the College of Letters and Sciences.<\/p>\n

Childs is an award-winning author, associate faculty of Creative Writing & Literary Arts<\/a> at University of Alaska Anchorage and faculty in the Master of Fine Arts in Fiction and Nonfiction program<\/a> at Southern New Hampshire University. Among his books<\/a> is Apocalyptic planet: Field guide to the future of the Earth<\/em>, winner of the Orion Book Award<\/a> and Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award<\/a> in 2013. A copy is being processed for Andersen Library<\/a>, but copies are available within 2-5 weekdays from other UW libraries via free UW Request<\/a>). A review<\/a> of the title that appeared in Geological Journal<\/em> (2014, vol.49:no.6, p.656) said, “This is a book about the end of the world, illustrated by a field trip through modern severe environments.”<\/p>\n

\"screenshotYou can listen to an interview of Craig Childs talking about Apocalyptic planet on a New Mexico PBS show Report from Santa Fe<\/em><\/a> last September.<\/p>\n

If you would like to learn more, Andersen Library can help!<\/strong> Please ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding other books by Craig Childs, or searching databases for his articles, such as “The birthplace of water<\/a>” (Orion Magazine<\/em>, 2016, vol.35:no.1, pp.14-20), “Walking on Mars<\/a>” (Orion Magazine<\/em>, 2014, vol.33:no.1, pp.24-31 — about the Gran Desierto desert which closely emulates the conditions of the planet Mars, and “On the trail of the ancestors<\/a>” (Natural History<\/em>, 2007, vol.116:no.2, pp.58-63).<\/p>\n

Enjoy the talk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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