Orion Magazine - https://orionmagazine.org/category/author-interviews/ America's Finest Environmental Magazine Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:15:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 195321810 Coming of Age in the Climate Crisis https://orionmagazine.org/article/coming-of-age-in-the-climate-crisis/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 13:15:26 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=269027 In which Farah Ali (The River, The Town) and Lydia Kiesling (Mobility) discuss how their new coming of age novels are informed by place and their respective upbringings, and how the ...

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]]> 269027 Does Your Cat Love You? https://orionmagazine.org/article/does-your-cat-love-you/ Tue, 02 May 2023 19:26:46 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=262084 In which we ask Jonathan Losos, evolutionary biologist and author of The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa, why our pet cats get stoned, eat socks, ...

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]]> 262084 On Thick Time, Talking Trees, and the Psychological Defense against our Fundamental Interdependency https://orionmagazine.org/article/on-thick-time-talking-trees-and-the-psychological-defense-against-our-fundamental-interdependency/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:30:02 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?post_type=article&p=240083 A conversation. ...

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]]> 240083 Seven Questions for the Author: The Mystery Woman in Room Three https://orionmagazine.org/2021/11/seven-questions-for-the-author-the-mystery-woman-in-room-three/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 02:37:05 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?p=235910 The Mystery Woman in Room Three is Orion’s newest collaboration, a six-part young adult novel by Aya de León about two undocumented teenage girls in Florida who uncover a kidnapping plot to ...

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]]> 235910 Your Own Particular Soil: A Conversation with Janisse Ray About Wild Spectacle https://orionmagazine.org/2021/10/your-own-particular-soil-a-conversation-with-janisse-ray-about-wild-spectacle/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:44:14 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?p=235081 ALOVER TAKES NOTHING FOR GRANTED. A lover explores, wanders, takes delight in nuance. Says, viva la difference. A lover listens, savors, is patient. Janisse Ray is a writer in love with ...

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]]> 235081 They Knew: The U.S. Government’s Role in Causing the Climate Crisis https://orionmagazine.org/2021/10/they-knew/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:25:58 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?p=234101   I FIRST MET GUS SPETH in his role as a poet. He was sitting in the audience of a talk I was giving at One Hundred Miles, a conservation organization ...

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]]> 234101 VIDEO: A Conversation Between Robin Wall Kimmerer and Robert Macfarlane https://orionmagazine.org/2021/10/old-growth-video/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 01:05:29 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?p=233346 IN AUGUST 2021, Orion released Old Growth, an anthology of essays and poems about the lives of trees. It’s a dynamic cross section of Orion’s long history of engagement with arboreal ...

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]]> 233346 When Nature Breaks the Law: An Interview With Mary Roach, Author of Fuzz https://orionmagazine.org/2021/09/when-nature-breaks-the-law-an-interview-with-mary-roach-author-of-fuzz/ https://orionmagazine.org/2021/09/when-nature-breaks-the-law-an-interview-with-mary-roach-author-of-fuzz/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:37:41 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?p=229180   MARY ROACH IS A SCIENCE JOURNALIST, top-notch storyteller, and Orion advisor. She’s the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, GULP: Adventures ...

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]]> https://orionmagazine.org/2021/09/when-nature-breaks-the-law-an-interview-with-mary-roach-author-of-fuzz/feed/ 1 229180 A Woven World: An Interview with Alison Hawthorne Deming https://orionmagazine.org/2021/08/a-woven-world-an-interview-with-alison-hawthorne-deming/ Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:40:08 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?p=224300 Poet, essayist, and Orion contributor Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of A Woven World: On Fashion, Fisherman, and the Sardine Dress (Counterpoint, available now) and climate campaigner Alice Bell, author of Our ...

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]]> 224300 Six Questions for the Author: Once There Were Wolves https://orionmagazine.org/2021/08/six-questions-for-the-author-once-there-were-wolves/ Wed, 04 Aug 2021 16:19:10 +0000 https://orionmagazine.org/?p=221170   Read an excerpt from Once There Were Wolves.   CHARLOTTE MCCONAGHY’S Once There Were Wolves, set in the Scottish Highlands, follows Inti Flynn, a scientist dedicated to reintroducing wolves to ...

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