EPISODE · Apr 28, 2020 · 42 MIN
Barry Lopez: Surviving What’s Coming
from Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations · host Toronto Public Library
*Note: given the current temporary closure of TPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made our best efforts to offer suggestions below for materials which are part our online collections, and available at home to anyone with a current Toronto Public Library card.Why are wait time for ebooks or audiobooks sometimes so long?Learn more about limits on the number of eBook copies and the length of time they can be borrowed.Book by Barry LopezHorizonArctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern LandscapeAbout This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of MemoryOutside: Six Short StoriesOf Wolves and MenCrow and WeaselResistance Books by Alissa YorkThe NaturalistFaunaEffigyMercy If you like Barry Lopez…Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy SnyderThe Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West by John David UnruhDersu Uzala by Vladimir ArsenyevThe Ice: A Journey to Antarctica by Stephen J. PyneFisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea by Anna Badkhen Other Related MaterialsHow Climate Change has Influenced Travel Writing (article from The Atlantic)Why the World Needs Barry Lopez (article from Outside Online) Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.
What this episode covers
Barry Lopez discusses Horizon, his most personal and expansive work to date. Moving through the author’s travels across six regions of the world from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; the Galapagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay to ice shelves of Antarctica. In this revelatory journey that searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world, Lopez voices concern, frustration along with humanity, hope and love, and forces readers to see the world differently. Barry Lopez is the author of two collections of essays, several story collections, Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award, Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist, and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributes regularly to both American and foreign journals and has traveled to more than 70 countries to conduct research. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and has been honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. Alissa York is the internationally acclaimed author of Mercy, Effigy (short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), Fauna and, most recently, The Naturalist (winner of the Canadian Authors’ Association Fiction Award). York is also the author of the short fiction collection, Any Given Power, stories from which have won the Journey Prize and the Bronwen Wallace Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, Brick magazine, Canadian Geographic and elsewhere.
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