Podcast appearances and mentions of Nathaniel Rich

**THIS EPISODE CONTAINS FULL SPOILERS**Did you know that your non-stick pans might be slowly poisoning you? Neither did we! In today's eye-opening episode of Film is Lit, we dive into the 2019 Mark Ruffalo film Dark Waters, based on Nathaniel Rich's 2016 New York Times article, The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare. That's right - it's time for a hard-hitting non-fiction exposé on corporate negligence, environmental pollution, and the relentless fight for justice. Did lawyer Robert Bilott ultimately prevail in his decades-long battle against chemical giant DuPont, exposing the dangers of toxic chemicals? Tune in to find out!#DarkWaters #MarkRuffalo #RobBilott #AnneHathaway #TimRobbins #NathanielRich #ToddHaynes #BillCamp #BillPullman #WilliamJacksonHarper #MareWinningham #FilmisLitpod #Movieadaptation #DuPont #NYT #NewYorkTimes

Nathaniel Rich is a novelist, essayist and writer-at-large for The New York Times Magazine. Rich sits down with Oz to talk about his essay, “Can Humans Endure the Psychological Torment of Mars?” The piece explores NASA's CHAPEA (“Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog”) mission, a simulation meant to test a major challenge of Mars missions – isolation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This year was earth's hottest on record, and the Atlantic storm season brought with it five major hurricanes. And yet in December, the Pew Research Center found that only some 20 percent of Americans expect to make major sacrifices in their lifetime due to the climate crisis. According to writer Nathaniel Rich, when it comes to planning for a fraught future, New Orleans sets an example the rest of the country would be wise to follow. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

Louisiana's coast sits at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The largest discharge basin in the United States, the Mississippi collects runoff from 41% of the nation's rivers and delivers it into the Gulf of Mexico. Where this freshwater meets the ocean, randomly deposited mounds of river sediment form a large, well-inhabited delta that is constantly reordering itself.   To assert permanence upon this fluid landform and to stop severe flooding of riverine communities, the US Army Corps of Engineers introduced the Mississippi River Tributaries Program in 1927. Over the course of four decades, a labyrinth of concrete levees, floodways, reservoirs and pumping stations were constructed in an attempt to control the river.    Today, these interventions along the Mississippi are inadvertently leading to greater flooding by preventing the natural process of sediment flow and the formation of new wetlands. Faced with this challenge, as well as the fastest rate of climate-induced sea level rise in the world—the Louisiana delta is quickly receding. In fact as Beaux Jones, president and CEO of The Water Institute shared, the state “loses roughly the equivalent of a football field every 100 minutes.”  This land loss is so great, that the nation's first official climate refugees hail from a now-deserted island in southern Louisiana: Isle de Jean Charles. Louisiana resident and writer Nathaniel Rich recently commented in The New York Times that evidence suggests New Orleans may not be far behind.  The urgent challenge of protecting the habitation of Louisiana's coast reminds us that climate change impacts are not a far-off abstraction or that resilience is a distant need; it is a daily reality for those in Gulf Coast.  Listen in as Ten Across founder Duke Reiter and Beaux Jones, president and CEO of The Water Institute, explore how this Baton Rouge-based research center is gathering the best coastal hydrologic data and experts, and sharing their methodologies with the US Army Corps of Engineers and many impacted communities in the I-10 corridor to assist them in critical decision making and resilience planning.  Relevant links and resources:  Learn more about how The Water Institute is helping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers update their benefit-cost analysis for climate adaptive infrastructure.  Resilient Jacksonville: the award-winning resilience plan from the City of Jacksonville, with research support provided by the Institute  Learn more about The Water Institute's work at the forefront of quantifying the impacts of compound flooding.

What comes to mind when we think about toxicity in everyday life? It could be toxic relationships or masculinity – through to consumption, waste, governance and environmental harm. Alice Mah joins Uncommon Sense to discuss toxic expertise, waste colonialism and more.The author of “Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation” and “Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It”, Alice reflects on what the petrochemical industry has to do with sociology. From the impact on marginalised communities often having no choice but to live in a toxic environment through to the concept of “waste colonialism”.She also introduces us to the work of Dr Max Liboiron and their work CLEAR (Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research) – an interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory whose methods foreground humility and good land relations. Alice explains how the work of CLEAR has impacted her and made her think a little differently when approaching her own work.Guest: Alice MahHosts: Rosie Hancock, Alexis Hieu TruongSeries Executive Producer: Alice BlochEpisode Guest Producer: Emma HoultonSound Engineer: David CracklesMusic: Joe GardnerArtwork: Erin AnikerFind more about Uncommon SenseEpisode ResourcesBy Alice MahPetrochemical PlanetPlastic UnlimitedToxic ExpertiseFrom the Sociological Review FoundationDeep Time, Intergenerational Knowledge, and Socio-Ecological Futures – The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2024 by Alice MahInto the abyss: Monsters, minerals and deep-sea mining in Norway's blue economy – Jennifer E. TelescaClimate Justice – magazine issueFurther resources“The Climate of History in a Planetary Age” – Dipesh Chakrabarty“Pollution Is Colonialism” – Max Liboiron“Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution” – Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner“The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World” – Linsey McGoeyCivic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)“The Blue Planet” – documentary TV series presented by David Attenborough“Dark Waters” – film directed by Todd Haynes – based on Nathaniel Rich's New York Times article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare”Production Note: This episode was recorded in July 2024.Support our work. Make a one-off or regular donation to help fund future episodes of Uncommon Sense: donorbox.org/uncommon-sense

Nathaniel Rich est un romancier et essayiste américain. En 2019, Il retraçait dans “Perdre la Terre” les circonstances dans lesquelles la communauté internationale est passée à côté d'une décennie (de 1979 à 1989) qui aurait pu consacrer un succès international en matière de lutte contre le dérèglement climatique. Il est revenu l'an dernier avec un nouvel essai, “Un monde dénaturé”, dans lequel il détaille l'acharnement dont fait preuve l'espèce humaine à essayer de retrouver un monde pourtant bel et bien définitivement perdu. Dans l'entretien à suivre, Nathaniel revient tout autant sur ses essais que sur ses œuvres de fiction et partage des clés pour construire un monde habitable où trouver notre juste place.Entretien enregistré le 6 mars 2023Remerciements : agence Logarythm

In this week's episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with Fran Moore, an associate professor at the University of California, Davis, about what it's like to serve as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Moore discusses the function of the CEA within the executive branch of the federal government, the range of economic expertise within the CEA, and how economists can improve the utility and relevance of their research for policymaking. References and recommendations: Frontiers of Benefit-Cost Analysis from the US Office of Management and Budget; https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-regulatory-affairs/frontiers-of-benefit-cost-analysis/ “A Progress Report on Climate-Energy-Macro Modeling,” containing a memo on tools to support the management of near-term macroeconomic and financial climate risks, from the Council of Economic Advisors; https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/12/22/a-progress-report-on-climate-energy-macro-modeling/ “Losing Earth: A Recent History” by Nathaniel Rich; https://www.mcdbooks.com/losing-earth/ “If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics” by Marilyn Waring; https://www.marilynwaring.com/publications/if-women-counted.asp “The Economist's View of the World and the Quest for Well-Being” by Steven E. Rhoads; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/economists-view-of-the-world/ABF1A4B73AA084CB909A3FF498153F16#fndtn-information

Today on Louisiana Considered, we bring you the latest episode of our climate change podcast, Sea Change. Humans have always used stories to make sense of the world…that's just how our brains work. And, so it makes sense that we need stories to help us understand the enormity of climate change. Today, we talk with Jeff Goodell, Katharine Wilkinson, and Nathaniel Rich — three authors who write books that people want to read… maybe can't put down… about the biggest existential threat of our time: climate change. We cover the importance of storytelling, what they've learned through the work and how the heck they even figure out what stories to write. There's even a cameo appearance by... the sex life of porcupines? For more information about the authors and their books featured in today's episode, please check out these websites: Jeff Goodell: https://jeffgoodellwriter.comKatharine Wilkinson: https://www.kkwilkinson.comNathaniel Rich: https://nathanielrich.com Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Halle Parker and Carlyle Calhoun. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman and Aubry Procell.    You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12:00 and 7:30 pm. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts.    Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.   Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(00:00:54) Les Européens s'organisent pour faire face aux flammes (00:07:25) L'avenir humain face à la planète dénaturée. Interview de Nathaniel Rich (00:16:43) Série : Traverser la méditerranée pour rejoindre l'Europe, épisode 2

Humans have always used stories to make sense of the world…that's just how our brains work. And, so it makes sense that we need stories to help us understand the enormity of climate change. Today, we talk with Jeff Goodell, Katharine Wilkinson, and Nathaniel Rich—three authors who write books that people want to read…maybe can't put down…about the biggest existential threat of our time: climate change. For more information about the authors and their books featured in today's episode, please check out these websites: Jeff Goodell: https://jeffgoodellwriter.com Katharine Wilkinson: https://www.kkwilkinson.com Nathaniel Rich: https://nathanielrich.com Hosted by Halle Parker and Carlyle Calhoun. Our managing producer is Carlyle Calhoun. Our sound designer is Maddie Zampanti. Sea Change is a production of WWNO and WRKF. We are part of the NPR Podcast Network and distributed by PRX.

“Did Nieux Swamp resemble the original deltaic marsh, before it had been ruined by sea level rise, shipping canals, and pipelines? Or had the Foundation's engineers created an alien landscape?” This week, acclaimed author Nathaniel Rich invites us to step into a short story that blurs the line between climate fiction and our emerging, engineered future. In “Hidden Bayou,” an actuary-turned-field-biologist follows an endangered bird through a man-made climate mitigation project funded by a multibillion dollar corporation. When a surprising encounter disrupts his duties, he is left to confront his own role in the eerie, manufactured landscape. Read this climate fiction story on our website. Explore more stories from Shifting Landscapes, our fourth print volume. Sign up for our newsletter to hear more stories as they are released each week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I think many aspiring writers have a juicy family story passed down that they are sure would make a great novel. Our guest this week, Ciera Horton McElroy, had heard stories about her grandfather, a scientist who worked at a plant that produced materials for a hydrogen bomb during the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. That one family story is the jumping off point of her debut novel, a work of historical fiction titled Atomic Family that takes the reader on a journey to an era of burgeoning women's rights, Sears Roebuck fashion, and the suburban American dream. With some good old radiation thrown into the mix. We talk to Ciera about what it was like to be a tourist at a now abandoned hydrogen bomb facility, how writing a little blog at 16 helped her start her own company, and the big differences between living in a state like Florida versus the Midwest. You can find Ciera on her website at www.cieramcelroy.com and on instagram @cierahmcelroy. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1 - Atomic Family by Ciera Horton McElroy 2- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 3- Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson 4- Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade by Nathaniel Rich (basis for Dark Waters) 5- All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 6- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin 7- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkah 8- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano 9- Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano 10- White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link 11- I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez 12- Hester by Laurie Albanese 13- Madame Pommery by Rebecca Rosenberg 14- Champagne Widows by Rebecca Rosenberg Movies/Shows mentioned-- 1- A Man Called Otto (Netflix 2022) 2- Our Great National Parks (Netflix 2022) 3- Dark Waters (2019)

I think many aspiring writers have a juicy family story passed down that they are sure would make a great novel. Our guest this week, Ciera Horton McElroy, had heard stories about her grandfather, a scientist who worked at a plant that produced materials for a hydrogen bomb during the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. That one family story is the jumping off point of her debut novel, a work of historical fiction titled Atomic Family that takes the reader on a journey to an era of burgeoning women's rights, Sears Roebuck fashion, and the suburban American dream. With some good old radiation thrown into the mix. We talk to Ciera about what it was like to be a tourist at a now abandoned hydrogen bomb facility, how writing a little blog at 16 helped her start her own company, and the big differences between living in a state like Florida versus the Midwest. You can find Ciera on her website at www.cieramcelroy.com and on instagram @cierahmcelroy. For show notes for any episode, go to our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. We are also on Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod and on FB Perks of Being a Book Lover. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1 - Atomic Family by Ciera Horton McElroy 2- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 3- Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson 4- Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade by Nathaniel Rich (basis for Dark Waters) 5- All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 6- Big Swiss by Jen Beagin 7- I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkah 8- Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano 9- Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano 10- White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link 11- I'm Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez 12- Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese 13- Madame Pommery by Rebecca Rosenberg 14- Champagne Widows by Rebecca Rosenberg Movies/Shows mentioned-- 1- A Man Called Otto (Netflix 2022) 2- Our Great National Parks (Netflix 2022) 3- Dark Waters (2019)

País Estados Unidos Dirección Todd Haynes Guion Matthew Carnahan, Mario Correa, Nathaniel Rich. Artículo: Nathaniel Rich. Biografía: Rob Bilott Música Marcelo Zarvos Fotografía Edward Lachman Reparto Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Bill Pullman, Victor Garber, William Jackson Harper, Mare Winningham, Kevin Crowley, Trenton Hudson Sinopsis Inspirada en una impactante historia real. Un tenaz abogado (Mark Ruffalo) descubre el oscuro secreto que conecta un número creciente de muertes y enfermedades con una de las corporaciones más grandes del mundo. En el proceso arriesga su futuro, su trabajo y hasta su propia familia para sacar a la luz la verdad.

(00:00:43) "Un monde dénaturé" : rencontre avec l'écrivain Nathaniel Rich (00:09:52) Médias américains : "Si vous avez un candidat scandaleux, incendiaire, insultant et fou, les gens vont regarder" (00:18:55) 20 ans plus tard, les Etats-Unis contrôle toujours l'économie de l'Irak

This week we're going back to 1990s West Virginia with Dark Waters! Join us as we learn about forever chemicals, the EPA, DuPont's court settlements, and more! Sources: Sharon Lerner, "The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception," The Intercept, 11 August 2015 Mariah Blake, "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia," HuffPost https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/  https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/reference-news-release-epa-settles-pfoa-case-against-dupont-largest-environmental  Sharon Lerner, "The Teflon Toxin," https://theintercept.com/2015/08/20/teflon-toxin-dupont-slipped-past-epa/  Nathaniel Rich, "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare,"  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html "Weinberg Memo," https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2289501-weinberg-memo.html  Chicago Tribune, Farmer Wilbur Earl Tennant's Historic Video Shows Mysterious Cow Disease: https://www.chicagotribune.com/9a272e0c-2b50-4dc7-8f14-04432c04e948-132.html Jeff Mordock, "Dupont denied retrial in $1.6M chemical cancer case," Delaware Online 17 February 2016, https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2016/02/17/duponts-motion-void-16m-jury-verdict-denied/80530306/   Mariah Blake, "Welcome to Beautiful Parkersburg, West Virginia," HuffPost https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/welcome-to-beautiful-parkersburg/  Glynis Board, "DuPont Offers $670M Settlement for "Teflon" Chemical Contamination of Water," WV Public Broadcasting (13 February 2017)  http://redirect.wvpublic.org/post/dupont-offers-670m-settlement-teflon-chemical-contamination-water  Monica Amarello, "DuPont, Chemours and Corteva Reach $4 Billion Settlement on ‘Forever Chemicals' Lawsuits" Environmental Working Group (January 2021) https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/dupont-chemours-and-corteva-reach-4-billion-settlement-forever-chemicals Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dark_waters_2019  Owen Gleiberman, "Film Review: 'Dark Waters'" Variety (13 November 2019). https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/dark-waters-review-mark-ruffalo-todd-haynes-1203402923/  VICE News, "Mark Ruffalo Takes Us Inside the Making of 'Dark Waters'" YouTube; https://youtu.be/JyE4_7j6UdQ  The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, "Mark Ruffalo - Playing a Real-Life Hero in True Horror Story "Dark Waters" | The Daily Show" YouTube; https://youtu.be/5pWFJPyyPAw   GQ, "Mark Ruffalo Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ" https://youtu.be/Q-Kt-6joSns  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Waters_(2019_film)  Mark Eichmann, "DuPont execs react to villain role in 'Dark Waters' film," WHYY (1 November 2019). https://whyy.org/articles/dupont-execs-react-to-villain-role-in-dark-waters-film/      

On this episode of MWMH, Payton and Garrett discuss how 17-year-old, Tyler Hadley, murdered his parents in their own home and then threw a house party with their corpses sitting in their bedroom down the hall. Ryans book below https://www.amazon.com/dp/1681395185/ref=cm_sw_r_api_i_J74F65ZWYXHC2419P88V_0 Case Sources: Rollingstone.com, “Tyler Hadley's Killer Party,” by Nathaniel Rich, December 18, 2013 Miaminewtimes.com, “Tyler Hadley Killed His Parents Because Port St. Lucie Is So Boring, Rolling Stone Says,” by Allie Contie, December 27, 2013 Nytimes.com, “City Is Stunned at Teenager's Arrest in Parents' Death,” by Catrin Einhorn, July 22, 2011 Abcnews.go.com, “Best Friend ‘Ruined My Life' When He Killed His Own Parents,” by Sean Dooley, Jenner Smith and Alexa Valiente, April 4, 2014 Abcnews.go.com, “Teen Took Selfie With Best Friend After Learning the Friend Was a Murderer,” by Sean Dooley, Jenner Smith and Alexa Valient, April 4, 2014 Archive.tcpalm.com, “After the crime: Hadley family home abandoned but not forgotten,” by Melissa E. Holsman of TCPalm, March 8, 2014 Tcpalm.com, “Uncertain Terms: Tyler Hadley resentenced to life for parents' murder|podcast preview,” by Melissa E. Holsman, December 20, 2018 Archive.tcpalm.com, “Expert: Records do not show that Tyler Hadley suffered from major depressive disorder,” by Staff Report, March 18, 2014 Archive.tcpalm.com, “Ryan Hadley talks about living in the aftermath of his parents' murders,” by Paul Ivice, October 11, 2015 Tcpalm.com, “Probation violation in gun theft lands Tyler Hadley star witness Michael Mandell in jail,” by Melissa E. Holsman, September 27, 2018 Tcpalm.com, “Tyler Hadley resentencing: Uncle calls Hadley's hearing ‘gut-wrenching horror show,'” by Melissa E. Holsman, October 2, 2018 Palmbeachpost.com, “Bank buys Port St. Lucie home where teen killed parents in 2011,” by Breaking News Staff, January 2, 2015, updated September 24, 2016 Palmbeachpost.com, “Reports: Tyler Hadley home demolished, land donated; love letter found,” by Victoria Malmer, April 27, 2015 Telegram.com, “'Absolutely horrific, the injuries were just massive,'” by Matt Sedenky, July 20, 2011 Browardpalmbeach.com, “Police Release Brutal Details of Tyler Hadley Allegedly Murdering His Parents With Hammer,” by Matthew Hendley, July 20, 2011 Cbnews.com, “Charges reduced against Fla. Teen Tyler Hadley, who allegedly killed parents, had house party,” by Edecio Martinez, July 20, 2011 Cbnews.com, “Funeral Held for Fla. Parents Beaten to Death With Hammer,” by CBS Miami, July 23, 2011 Cbsnews.com, “Teen who killed parents, threw party, gets life without parole,” Wpbf.com, “Partygoers: Hadley Hinted He ‘Did Something Bad,'” Wpbf.com, “Hadley's parents hit at least 35 times each with deadly hammer strikes,” Wflx.com, “Photos & documents released in Hadley case,” by Jon Shainman, September 19, 2011 Wflx.com, “Hadley sentenced to life after killing parents with hammer,” by Rachel Leigh, March 20, 2014 Wptv.com, “Judge upholds two life sentences for Tyler Hadley,” by Alanna Quillen Allthatsinteresting.com, “The Disturbing Story of Tyler Hadley, The Teenager Who Killed His Parents So He Could Throw A House Party,” by Genevieve Carlton Kgw.com, “Man who killed parents with hammer in trouble in prison,” by Melissa E. Holsman Tributes.com, “Mrs. and Mr. Mary Jo and Blake Hadley” Port St. Lucie Police Department redacted Incident Report. Felony Plea Form, State of Florida v. Tyler Hadley, St. Lucie County File Date, February 19, 2014 Murderpedia.org, Tyler Joseph Hadley Assisted research and writing by: Diane Birnholz Links: https://mwmh.contactin.bio/ https://linktr.ee/murderwithmyhusband Ads: HelloFresh: www.HelloFresh.com/Husband16 and use code husband16 CareOf: www.careof.com use code mwmh50 Shopify: www.shopify.com/husband  Helix: www.helixsleep.com/mwmh Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wie lässt sich die Natur noch schützen, wenn es so etwas wie „unberührte Natur“ gar nicht mehr gibt? Und welche Folgen hat dies für den Klimaschutz? Nathaniel Rich erzählt in zehn Reportagen von einer Welt, in der der Mensch alles, was er anfasst, für immer verändert. Rezension von Oliver Pfohlmann. Aus dem Englischen von Thomas Gunkel Rowohlt Verlag, 320 Seiten, 24 Euro ISBN 978-3-7371-0138-7

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Für den Schutz der Umwelt in ihrer bisherigen Form ist es zu spät, erklärt der amerikanische Autor Nathaniel Rich. Nichts könne in einen ursprünglichen Zustand versetzt werden. Und bei Eingriffen oder Renaturierungen müssten weitere Folgen bedacht werden.Von Matthias Beckerwww.deutschlandfunk.de, Andruck - Das Magazin für Politische LiteraturDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

This week I'm joined by Rafe Pomerance frankly one of the most enlightening and switched on men i've spoken to on the show about Climate Change. As some of you will know I spoke with Nathaniel Rich about his book Losing Earth. In the book Rafe features very heavily in the battle to bring Climate Change into the politcal machine. Rafe and I talk about his journey within activism, Losing Earth and his own personal journey. It really was a first rate honour and conversation. ENJOY! If you feel like rating the show on iTunes or sharing with a friend I'd be very very grateful. Much love and good luck out there mind those winter tornadoes. Twitter @limehousepod instagram The Limehouse Podcast

This weeks episode deals with Climate Change. I speak with Nathaniel Rich about his magnifcent book Losing Earth. A book that charters the early years of Climate Change activism !979-89 when something could have been done and looked like it was going to be done. Sadly this changed dramatically. We talk about his book in depth and the lamentable situation the world is in now. WWW.NATHNIELRICH.COM

The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland concluded last weekend—the 26th “Conference of Parties.” After more than two decades of these promises, it's worth wondering how much of this is all just hot air. According to the non-profit Climate Action Tracker, not a single country is on target to meet the COP21 pledge, also known as the Paris Climate Accords, and many aren't even on target for their COP3 pledge, the Kyoto Protocol.   And yet, these summits are often still covered with breathless play-by-play analysis: all the juicy details about diplomatic attaches, late-night negotiation, and backroom deals. Which is not without value, but it's worth asking: what are the stories being missed when all eyes are on the summit? To answer that, we called Nathaniel Rich, writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine, who takes a markedly different approach.

The Interview:With the world leaders of the G20 having met about climate change last week and the upcoming United Nations climate summit happening in Scotland this week, we're airing our conversation from a few months back with journalist and novelist Nathaniel Rich, who began to more steadily research and write about the environment after moving with his wife to New Orleans a few years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. His sprawling cover story for The New York Times Magazine, “Losing Earth,” told about how American scientists had figured out the solutions to what is now the climate crisis in the late 1970s. The Reagan Revolution in 1980, however, and America's swing to the right, led to a suppression of sober conversations aimed at reducing fossil fuel use or human-driven environmental harm. Deregulation and rampant lobbying and corruption by the energy companies have plagued us for four decades since. Nothing was done then, and nothing has really been done since, as Greta Thunberg noted the other day in her blah-blah-blah, all-talk-and-no-action commentary after the G20 summit, highlighting the inability of our world leaders to act in meaningful ways—or act at all!Rich's most recent book, Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade (MCD/FSG), recollects and reworks for book publication, a large part of his journalism from the past decade. Rich has also published three novels (including one about climate change, Odds Against Tomorrow), and has a natural ear for dialogue. His research and writing chops are put to good use in this first nonfiction collection, covering everything from DuPont poisoning waterways (one of the stories in the book became the Todd Haynes film Dark Water) to kamikaze starfish to late-20th Century glow-in-the-dark rabbit experiments. Second Nature is essential reading for anyone who cares about the ecology (and the future) of the earth. The Reading:Nathaniel Rich reads from his latest collection, Second Nature (MCD/FSG) Music by Thomas Leer & Robert Rental

Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich (MCD, April 2019) By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change―including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours. It reveals the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry's coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. *PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD FINALIST *THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS' SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AWARD WINNER *SOCIETY OF ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISTS AWARD WINNER ________________________ Van Carter is a retired broadcast journalist. "I was never a war correspondent, yet we're now in a war and I feel like I'm reporting from the front lines."  Since 2008, he has published the Only Green List.  To see previous and upcoming episodes, go here. Music credit: David Nevue, While the Trees Sleep Kudos to Sunbury Press for hosting this interview series on its BookSpeak Network

In this special "hybrid" episode, Jordan tells the story of teenage murderer, Tyler Hadley. Then Ed C joins Jordy for a deeper discussion about the case. *Written and read by Jordan Crittenden*Music by Jordan Crittenden, Doug Maxwell, Anno Domini Beats, Amulets, TrackTribe*Sources: - Rolling Stone: "Tyler Hadley's Killer Party" by Nathaniel Rich (2013). https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tyler-hadleys-killer-party-54270/ - Crimes of Passion: "Tyler Hadley Part 1: Blake and Mary Jo." Lanie Hobbs, Parcast (2019). https://open.spotify.com/episode/0TC6yunVCPyz1YscwwQp8E?si=xQQJ_L_7Rm2cAXVv1pOBQw&dl_branch=1 - A Thousand Fireflies by Ryan Hadley & Dan Yearick (2015). https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand-fireflies-ryan-hadley/1122433487 - Coffeehouse Crime: "The House Party Killer" (2021). https://youtu.be/xm1tGpkaYZo*To support Dark Dark World: http://www.patreon.com/darkdarkworld*Web: http://www.darkdarkworld.com *Twitter: @darkworldpod *Instagram: @darkdarkworldpodcast *Email: darkworldpod@gmail.com *Thank you for listening!

This week we are joined by the Chief Operating Officer (and joint Chief Sustainability Officer) of Uniper, David Bryson. Uniper have a large fleet of largely fossil based electricity production assets, and so this was a perfect chance to talk about the energy transition with a strategically inportant company with much work to do to transition their assets. With an outline aggressive net zero plan for 2035, David's role in making the future of the European power fit for the future is hugely important. He's also a great guy to talk to. Rory Sullivan looks back on the decade we could have stopped climate change, with Nathaniel Rich's work: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html Please feel free to connect with any of the hosts on LinkedIn or Twitter David Bryson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-bryson-2064a919/ Rory Sullivan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rory-sullivan-73188418/ Adam Matthews: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-matthews-84926b31/ David Hickey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-hickey-cfa-05633526/

Floods, wildfires, skies filled with smoke and ash—it's been a summer full of alarming signs of climate change. This week, journalist and novelist Nathaniel Rich joins Joe Hagan on Inside the Hive to discuss the looming catastrophe we've known about for decades but have consistently failed to slow, let alone stop. Should we take the climate fight to politicians and corporations, or is our system too hopelessly broken to respond to the earth's rising temperatures? How much do individual choices like eating vegan or driving electric cars really help? The author of Losing Earth: A Recent History talks about his personal response as he paints a portrait of ignorance and bad faith among the powers that be. Rich also suggests new ways to change and deepen our relationship to our planet in crisis—including the power of fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why are Indian cities the way they are? How do we define a good city? And what should the future of urbanized India be like? In the next Puliyabaazi, we discuss these questions and a lot more, with Dr Anjali Karol Mohan, an urban and regional planner.हमारे समाज की समृद्धि के लिए शहरीकरण ज़रूरी है। इसके बावजूद हमारे शहरों की अवस्था को देखकर अक्सर खीज और निराशा के भाव मंडराने लगते है। तो इस एपिसोड में हमने बात की शहरी नियोजक डॉ. अंजली करोल मोहन से एक अच्छे शहर की संकल्पना पर। For more:Bird's eye view of city planning is full of blur, by Anjali Karol Mohan, India TogetherThe Prophecies of Jane Jacobs, by Nathaniel Rich, The AtlanticBengaluru, sans a city plan, by Anjali Karol Mohan, Deccan HeraldPuliyabaazi is on these platforms:Twitter: https://twitter.com/puliyabaaziFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/puliyabaaziInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/puliyabaazi/Subscribe & listen to the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Castbox, AudioBoom, YouTube, Spotify or any other podcast app.

Lori is joined by two special guests on today's episode of Positive Impact Philanthropy! Sonia Lakshman and Aimee Higgins are the founders of Every One of Us, a nonprofit organization that funds projects dedicated to climate solutions. As we continue to face a global crisis on climate change, find out how their cause has impacted multiple communities. How did they make it as easy as possible for people to take action? Stay tuned!   What does The Every One Club do? What key environmental issues are they focusing on? The reality that people are too busy with their lives to take action in saving the environment. Investing in purpose-driven businesses that align with their goals as an organization. The value of having the members decide on their projects and funding activities. And much more! ~   Connect with Sonia & Aimee! Website: https://everyoneofus.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_everyoneofus/   Book mentioned: Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich - https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Earth-History-Nathaniel-Rich/dp/0374191336 Company mentioned: https://www.beebombs.com/how-to-beebomb   Connect with Lori Kranczer! Website: https://www.everydayplannedgiving.com/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/positiveimpactphilanthropy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorikranczer/    

Montreal-based film writer and programmer Justine Smith returns to the pod to discuss two radical works by the great director Todd Haynes, both based on true stories: his first short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988) and his latest feature, Dark Waters (2019). Dark Waters was written off by many critics at the time of release as a “work-for-hire” project from Haynes, but in fact it is of a piece with the director's career-spanning concerns about the dangers built into living in a consumer society and the hidden illnesses that grow behind the facade of normalcy. Both films have the courage to name names and display great empathy towards their subjects, as well as the audience that also has to navigate the hard societal truths these films reveal. Dark Waters is available for rent on iTunes. Superstar cannot be distributed legally after Richard Carpenter, upset over the film's retelling of his sister's life and death using Barbie dolls, sued Haynes for the use of unlicensed Carpenters music in the film. Bootleg transfers show up on YouTube from time to time. Consider becoming a patron of Junk Filter to get access to bonus episodes: patreon.com/junkfilter Follow Justine Smith on Twitter A teenaged Karen Carpenter displaying great skill as a drummer on a sixties variety show, one of the many talents that were suppressed in her tragic life. (They Long To Be) Close To You - Carpenters, 1970 “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare” - the New York Times Magazine article by Nathaniel Rich that Dark Waters is adapted from, January 10, 2016

Nathaniel Rich considers ‘the horrific interconnectedness of all things’

Tyler Hadley was 17 years old when he decided to bludgeon his parents and then throw the rager of a lifetime (in his eyes.) Close to a hundred people attended this party not knowing that in a separate locked bedroom down the hall, the bodies of Mary Jo and Blake Hadley were laying under a hodgepodge of household items. We redid this case to offer some new information and woah, somehow it's even more disturbing the second time around.  BUT to lighten some of the darkest moments, we have added in clips from the original episode because we could never replace the original "FA SHO!!" ;) A Thousand Fireflies by Ryan Hadley See How Much You Love Me by Amber Hunt Tyler Hadley's Killer Party by Nathaniel Rich for Rolling Stone HelloFresh: Go to HelloFresh.com/morbid12 and use code morbid12 for twelve free meals, including free shipping! Better help: This podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp and Morbid: A True Crime Podcast listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/Morbid Careof: For 50% off your first Care/of order, go to TakeCareOf.com/morbid50 and enter code morbid50 ChiliTechnology: Head over to chilisleep.com/morbid for ChiliSleep's best deal, available to Morbid listeners for a limited time!  ThirdLove: Go to THIRDLOVE.com/MORBID now to find your perfect-fitting bra… and get 20% off your first purchase!

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with Nathaniel Rich, author of “Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade.” Thanks to our generous donors. Lead support for this podcast has been provided by Elizabeth “Lisette” Prince. Additional support was provided by James J. “Jimmy” Coleman Jr.

Dig into the forensics of a new kind of noir, climate crime, with acclaimed novelist and nonfiction writer Nathaniel Rich, author of Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade, and intellectual powerhouse Philip Gourevitch, longtime staff writer for The New Yorker. We'll also revisit the pioneering sonic composition about rewiring the earth's atmosphere: Landfall, the genius collaboration—and now a Grammy Award-winning album—between Laurie Anderson, icon, inventor, and NASA's first artist in residence, and Kronos Quartet. Contributing artist: Joseph Keckler.

Reporter and writer Nathaniel Rich delves deep into conversation with Revive & Restore's Ryan Phelan and Ben Novak to discuss his newest book Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade,which attempts to come to terms with the massive changes that are underway on our planet, and how humans can better understand our role to caretake, conserve and thoughtfully manage our relationship with nature for the long term. From Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from his writing), Nathaniel Rich's stories have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. In Second Nature, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer, How do we return to the world that we've lost? It is, What world do we want to create in its place?

We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity’s clumsy signature. The old distinctions—between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact—have blurred, losing all meaning. So author Nathaniel Rich argues in his book Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade. With intimate stories from ordinary people making desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien, Rich joined us to share from this deeply reported book. In conversation with fellow author Claire Vaye Watkins, he presented a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world, one that helps us understand our place in a reality that resembles nothing human beings have known. Together, they wondered what it means to live in an era of terrible ecological responsibility. The question is no longer, How do we return to the world that we’ve lost?, they express, but rather What world do we want to create in its place? Nathaniel Rich is the author of Losing Earth: A Recent History and the novels King Zeno, Odds Against Tomorrow, and The Mayor’s Tongue. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books. Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of the novel Gold Fame Citrusand the short story collection Battleborn. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, Watkins is a professor at the University of California Irvine. Buy the Book: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/book/9780374106034  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To make a donation or become a member click here. 

Journalist Nathaniel Rich (writer-at-large, New York Times Magazine) believes we can do “great good” with nature. But how? In his brilliantly reported new book, “Second Nature”, he explores the potential of environmental innovations (7:52), the weight of living in an era of “terrible responsibility” (11:00), what a methane leak in Aliso Canyon can teach us about us (14:03), and how he found hope in a Japanese doctor studying immortal jellyfish (22:38). We also discuss the spiritual change needed to address our climate crisis (35:41), and why (better) storytelling may be the most effective way out of this mess (42:51).  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Nathaniel Rich, award-winning journalist and author of Second Nature: Scenes From a World Remade joins the show to talk about what he's learned covering the scientists, politicians, and corporations that are reshaping our planet and its inhabitants for better and for worse.  About Our Guest: Nathaniel Rich is an award-winning journalist and author. In 2019, he wrote "Losing Earth: A Recent History", and his 2016 New York Times Magazine article "The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare" was turned into the feature film "Dark Waters". Buy Second Nature: Scenes From a World Remade Further Reading/Listening: Our conversation with Rob Bilott Our conversation with Zephyr Teachout Subscribe to our Substack newsletter "The Climate Weekly": https://theclimateweekly.substack.com/ As always, follow us @climatepod on Twitter and email us at theclimatepod@gmail.com. Our music is "Gotta Get Up" by The Passion Hifi, check out his music at thepassionhifi.com. Rate, review and subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and more! Subscribe to our new YouTube channel! Join our Facebook group. Check out our updated website! 

Nathaniel Rich, the author of "Second Nature: Scenes From a World Remade," lays out his vision of a post-natural world. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fiction-science/support

Nathaniel Rich, author of "Second Nature," "Losing Earth" and the sci-fi novel "Odds Against Tomorrow," discusses the state of contemporary fiction with Fiction Science co-hosts Dominica Phetteplace and Alan Boyle. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fiction-science/support

Award-winning writer, conservationist and activist Terry Tempest Williams speaks with novelist and journalist Nathaniel Rich. Both Williams and Rich are avid supporters of the environment and proponents of ecological issues. Nathaniel Rich is the author of several books and a journalist at The New York Times Magazine. Mr. Rich’s 2019 book "Losing Earth: A Recent History" received awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the American Institute of Physicists and was a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. He is a regular contributor to The Atlantic, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books. Rich’s next book, titled "Second Nature," will be published in March 2021. Terry Tempest Williams writes about social and environmental justice, including ecology and the protection of public lands. She has received a John Muir Award for American Conservation and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Ms. Williams 2019 book "Erosion: Essays of Undoing" examines the cultural and environmental issues of public land, and climate crisis. She is the current writer-in-residence at Harvard Divinity School.

In this week's episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan are joined by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith and novelist Kawai Strong Washburn, who talk about what the Biden administration owes the BIPOC and women voters who got them elected. First, Smith discusses building bridges as a nation, and shares excerpts of her award-winning collection, Wade in the Water. Then, Hawaii-born Washburn talks about the power of community organizing, and reads from his acclaimed debut, Sharks in the Time of Saviors. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel. This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Tracy K. Smith The Cancer Journals Life On Mars: Poems Wade In The Water: Poems American Journal: Fifty Poems For Our Time Ordinary Light: A Memoir Duende: Poems “Poet Tracy K. Smith Pays Tribute to Kamala Harris,” Vogue Kawai Strong Washburn Sharks in the Time of Saviors “What the Ocean Eats,” McSweeney's   Others: “Biden's First 100 Days: Here's What To Expect” by Elena Moore, NPR America Amplified: Election 2020, a six-episode national talk show from the CPB public media initiative America Amplified “Portraits of Reconciliation: 20 years after the genocide in Rwanda, reconciliation still happens one encounter at a time,” by Pieter Hugo and Susan Dominus, New York Times “Kama'āina: Kawai Strong Washburn Interviewed by Kathryn Savage,” BOMB Magazine Malcolm X Biography Senator Ted Cruz on Twitter: "By rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, President Biden indicates he's more interested in the views of the citizens of Paris than in the jobs of the citizens of Pittsburgh. This agreement will do little to affect the climate and will harm the livelihoods of Americans." “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont's Worst Nightmare” by Nathaniel Rich, The New York Times Sunday Magazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Perry Serpa and Kirsten Spruch co-host Episode 3 of the Creative Climate, Tighten The Beltway, an hour long exploration of the climate discussion within U.S. political forum. Perry interviews Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth, best selling chronicle of the beltway conversation from the seventies to present day, and John Rivera, energy expert/negotiator and veteran of the Federal Energy Administration and the Department of Energy in the 70s and 80s. Both guests shed ample light on the tug o'war around climate and give us some fresh insights as to where the conversation needs to go. Hottest On Record musical guest is critically acclaimed Austin-based singer/songwriter, Rod Melancon who offers us an acoustic version of "Corpus Christi Carwash," his tribute to the late, great Freddie Fender. 

On this week's Tech Nation, how we came to question climate change. To even question the science. What's it all about? Nathaniel Rich, journalist and author of “Losing Earth: A Recent History”, explains. Then Tech Nation Chief Correspondent Daniel Kraft talks about the age of the medical selfie

Location: Skype Date: Wednesday, 17th December Project: nathanielrich.com Role: Author In December 2018 Gerald Cotten, the CEO of Canadian crypto exchange Quadriga, was on his honeymoon in India with his new wife. While there Gerald fell sick and a few days later died from complications related to his Crohn's disease. Gerald was the only person who held the private keys to Quadriga's cold storage wallet, leaving an estimated CA$250m ($190 US) of customer deposits unrecoverable. In January 2019 QuadrigaCX, Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange shut down for business, filing for bankruptcy in April. While initially it was suspected the loss was down to gross incompetence and failure to structure a contingency plan, conspiracies quickly started to circulate:  Had Gerald faked his death in India as an elaborate exit scam? When Gerald lost $millions of Ethereum in a smart contract bug a couple of years earlier, had he used customer funds on other exchanges to try and trade his way out of this hole? Had Gerald lost funds he was harbouring for criminal gangs and escaped to avoid repercussions? To add to the mismanagement of funds and keys the events leading up to and following his death were equally suspicious:  Just days before the trip Gerald had signed a new will leaving his entire estate to his wife.  Following his death, Gerald's wife did not request an autopsy and removed the body from the hospital.  His death was announced on January 14th, Despite dying on December 9th. Whatever the course of events in India, the death and mismanagement of the exchange and private keys raise many questions, and there are likely parts of the story we may never know. In this interview, I talk to author Nathaniel Rich about his investigation into Quadriga for Vanity Fair. We discuss the suspicious death of Quadriga's CEO Gerald Cotten, the missing $250m of customer funds and the FBI's investigation. Note: following my interview with Nathaniel, the lawyers representing the customers of Quadriga have asked Canadian authorities to exhume Gerald's body. You can read more about that here.

Sherry speaks with author Nathaniel Rich about his new book LOSING EARTH. Originally aired on May 6th 2019.

For episode 25 of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, novelist and journalist Nathaniel Rich and poet and activist Juliana Spahr discuss writing about climate change and ecological destruction with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell. In part one, Rich discusses the history and craft behind his groundbreaking New York Times Magazine article “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change.” Next, Spahr talks about her recent Harper's poem “A Destruction Story,” Trump's use of poetry in his recent rallies, and the purpose of ecopoetics. Readings for the episode: “Losing Earth,” Odds Against Tomorrow, and King Zeno by Nathaniel Rich “A Destruction Story” and “Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache” by Juliana Spahr The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite by Ann Finkbeiner In Cold Blood by Truman Capote The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe  John Adams by David McCullough Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boohttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812979329 Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPheehttps://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374514310 Nathaniel Rich's Energy Gang podcast interview Turtle Island by Gary Snyder   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David talks with New Orleans-based author Nathaniel Rich about his latest novel, KING ZENO, Phillip Roth's legacy, and more. Originally aired on May 31st 2018.

Odds Against Tomorrow (Farrar Straus Giroux) NEW YORK CITY, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of a cavernous office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is employee number two. He is asked to calculate worst-case scenarios in the most intricate detail, and his schemes are sold to corporations to indemnify them against any future disasters. This is the cutting edge of corporate irresponsibility, and business is booming. As Mitchell immerses himself in the mathematics of catastrophe--ecological collapse, global war, natural disasters--he becomes obsessed by a culture's fears. Yet he also loses touch with his last connection to reality: Elsa Bruner, a friend with her own apocalyptic secret, who has started a commune in Maine. Then, just as Mitchell's predictions reach a nightmarish crescendo, an actual worst-case scenario overtakes Manhattan. Mitchell realizes he is uniquely prepared to profit. But at what cost? At once an all-too-plausible literary thriller, an unexpected love story, and a philosophically searching inquiry into the nature of fear, Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow poses the ultimate questions of imagination and civilization. The future is not quite what it used to be. "This literary thriller is blessed with a propulsive plot, macabre humor, several richly developed characters, and serious ethical and philosophical issues, all lightly clothed in skillful writing."--Booklist Praise for The Mayor's Tongue: "A brilliantly told novel, by turns terrifying, touching, and wildly funny." --Stephen King "An author who could well become one of the defining writers of his generation." --The Sunday Telegraph "A spare masterpiece." --The Boston Globe Born in New York City, Nathaniel Rich now lives in New Orleans. He is the author of The Mayor's Tongue. Photo by Meredith Angelson THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS, MAY 8, 2013. COPIES OF THE BOOK FROM THIS EVENT CAN BE PURCHASED HERE: http://www.skylightbooks.com/book/9780374224240