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BONUS: Climate Book Reviews with author Ashley Shelby on Honeymoons in Temporary Locations
Manage episode 496236929 series 3331404
In this latest episode of Ed’s occasional podcast Climate Book Reviews, we dive into the wildly imaginative and disturbingly plausible world of Ashley Shelby’s acclaimed story collection, Honeymoons in Temporary Locations.
Recently named one of Fresh Energy’s Favorite Climate Books of 2025 and shortlisted for the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, Shelby’s collection has been praised by Scientific American, Foreword, and the Post and Courier for its biting wit, emotional punch, and genre-bending storytelling.
Ed is joined by his regular co-host Dr. Roger Thompson—now Director of Writing Programs and Professor at Arizona State University—for a lively, funny, and far-ranging conversation with Shelby herself. They unpack her satirical takes on resistance, inequality and privilege in crisis (think "luxury apocolypse bunkers”), and what it means to grieve - and medicate away - the losses brought on by climate change.
Shelby’s work has appeared in Slate, The New York Times Book Review, LitHub, Salon, and Audubon, and she’s received the Red Hen Press Short Fiction Award, the Enizagam Short Story Award, and the Third Coast Fiction Prize. She’s also the author of Red River Rising, an acclaimed account of the 1997 Grand Forks flood.
If you like your climate fiction smart, satirical, and maybe a little too close to home, this one’s for you.
More info and past Climate Book Reviews episodes at: climatebookreviews.co
Send us a text (if you'd like a response, please include your email)
Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts
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Energy vs Climate Podcast
www.energyvsclimate.com
98 episodes
BONUS: Climate Book Reviews with author Ashley Shelby on Honeymoons in Temporary Locations
Energy vs Climate: How climate is changing our energy systems
Manage episode 496236929 series 3331404
In this latest episode of Ed’s occasional podcast Climate Book Reviews, we dive into the wildly imaginative and disturbingly plausible world of Ashley Shelby’s acclaimed story collection, Honeymoons in Temporary Locations.
Recently named one of Fresh Energy’s Favorite Climate Books of 2025 and shortlisted for the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, Shelby’s collection has been praised by Scientific American, Foreword, and the Post and Courier for its biting wit, emotional punch, and genre-bending storytelling.
Ed is joined by his regular co-host Dr. Roger Thompson—now Director of Writing Programs and Professor at Arizona State University—for a lively, funny, and far-ranging conversation with Shelby herself. They unpack her satirical takes on resistance, inequality and privilege in crisis (think "luxury apocolypse bunkers”), and what it means to grieve - and medicate away - the losses brought on by climate change.
Shelby’s work has appeared in Slate, The New York Times Book Review, LitHub, Salon, and Audubon, and she’s received the Red Hen Press Short Fiction Award, the Enizagam Short Story Award, and the Third Coast Fiction Prize. She’s also the author of Red River Rising, an acclaimed account of the 1997 Grand Forks flood.
If you like your climate fiction smart, satirical, and maybe a little too close to home, this one’s for you.
More info and past Climate Book Reviews episodes at: climatebookreviews.co
Send us a text (if you'd like a response, please include your email)
Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts
___
Energy vs Climate Podcast
www.energyvsclimate.com
98 episodes
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