From the author of Oval, a collection of “fan nonfiction” that proposes new possibilities and genealogies for weird fiction in the age of extinction.

This collection is about love, death, plants, and weird fiction. It takes its title from a Margaret Atwood story in which an adolescent girl seems to turn into a tree. It examines works by Doris... See more

Immersing ourselves in the seasons, writing them down, is a way of telling an old circling story we need to hear—that everything will circle back to us, that there are no closed systems, no “externalities,” as economists call toxins and emissions. This is the primary story of ecology, a story that insists upon the circles. Now we know that carbon... See more