We Loved It All: A Memory of Life
with Lydia Millet
Hosted by Stephen Brockwell
In Person Streaming Non-Fict Science Memoir
[A] profoundly affecting meditation on what it means to live through climate change. . . . In scintillating prose, Millet makes a passionate case that humans must own up to their responsibilities to each other and the natural world . . . . Mournful and piercingly beautiful, this will stick with readers long after they finish the last page.
Join us for a conversation between poet Stephen Brockwell and Lydia Millet about We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, an anti-memoir that explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened.
Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet’s distinctive voice and sly wit. Her first nonfiction book combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with the more-than-human world.
Emerging from a quarter century of wildlife and climate advocacy, We Loved it All marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to “the others”— the animals and plants with whom we share the earth. Accounts of fears and failures, jobs and friendships, childhood and motherhood are interspersed with exquisite accounts of nonhumans and arresting meditations on the power of story to shape the future.
Seeking to understand why we immerse ourselves in the domestic and immediate, turning away from more sweeping views, she examines how grand cultural myths can deny our longing for the company of nature and deprive us of its charisma and inspiration.
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