Audrey Gray

Audrey Gray

@audreygray.bsky.social

Writing about our climate, courage, and protection. https://www.audreygray.nyc

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Audrey Gray
@audreygray.bsky.social

E.B. White to the NY Times, 1961: "All that I ever hope to say in books is that I love the world. I guess you can find it in there, if you dig around."

Audrey Gray
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I’m here to tell you, John of John, it hooked me so fast and then did a Shonda and I can’t say any more about plot. On a sentence level, on the tenderness meter, on landscape writing that works without a single cliche. That’s my Booker vote.

Audrey Gray
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I always had an instinctual ick about Annie Dillard's hits, but learning in her obit that she'd taken one of her grad student's stories (THE sexy, bloody one) and adopted it as her opening passage in Tinker Creek (which won '75 Pulitzer for Nonfiction)...whoa. In better news, Eudora had the ick too!

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Jeff Goodell
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A 1981 internal memo written by the director of one of Exxon’s science labs said it was “distinctly possible” that cumulative carbon emissions could eventually ‘produce effects which will indeed be catastrophic (at least for a substantial fraction of the earth’s population).’”

theguardian.comNearly 1,400 missing, mostly tourists, after Nepal-Tibet flash flood kills at least 270Entire villages swept away after glacial collapse triggers flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

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Lauri Myllyvirta
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Steep drop in China's CO2 emissions in July: -power generation from coal&gas -3.5% -coal mine output -10% in July, -3% year-to-date -cement output -12% in July, -9% YTD -crude steel output -4%, -3% -oil refining -16%, -7%

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The New Yorker
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The author of “The English Patient” had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of his Booker Prize-winning novel, teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2-BjwQ

newyorkermag.visitlink.meThe Glorious Disorder of Michael Ondaatje’s Early WorkMichael Ondaatje had been experimenting across forms for decades before the publication of “The English Patient,” teaching writers who had crossed borders to arrive in the West to spell out their own liberation.

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Wolfgang Blau
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“We kind of knew it was coming, but always thought it was a problem our children would probably have to deal with,” he said. “It’s happened much, much faster.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... „Europe’s farmers move to the night shift to beat the heat“

giftarticle.ft.comEurope’s farmers move to the night shift to beat the heatFloodlights, headlamps, cooling sheds and later feeding times for animals are helping the sector cope with extreme weather
Audrey Gray
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Nelson: "the pleasures of having written — having thought, having researched, having tried...—have a range of effects..from frustration to joy." Dodge: "Often being in practice means I’ve started something and it’s not good yet...It's not what I need it to be." fhspost.com/9071/feature...

fhspost.comLiving as an Artist and Writer in a STEM-Driven Society: A Conversation with Maggie Nelson and Harry DodgeWhen I sat down with Maggie Nelson and Harry Dodge, the question on my mind was: “what does it look like to live a creative life in a world dominated by business and science, technology, engineering, ...
Audrey Gray
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Hines wrote one of best biographies of all time, “Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture.” It leaves you with critical understanding, compassion for mental illness, and wonder…and it’s loaded with photos (the way I like ‘em!). Great recognizes great. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/b...

nytimes.comThomas S. Hines, Who Helped Put L.A. Architecture on the Map, Dies at 89A historian at U.C.L.A., he showed how Los Angeles’s architects and planners made the city a global center for modernist design in the 20th century.
Audrey Gray
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Calling out “the nihilist consensus” … first they denied, then they said it’s real and too late

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comMurderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George MonbiotAs climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Audrey Gray
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Story of the golden quote on the wall at Dante West (fav spot in Village)...right as they were set to launch, COVID hit. Limbo. They painted the last line of Dante's Inferno, in faith, while they waited to open: E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle And then we emerged and saw the stars again.

Audrey Gray
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I know much is being made of Wilson's elaborate takedown, but buried deep in these 4K words is a gorgeous compliment given in a very Wilson way. She commends Nolan for his use of the the bow and its singular tone: "a beautiful sonic image of the archer as musician" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.ukEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Zeke Hausfather
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Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:

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FRANCE 24 English
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Live: Macron to hold crisis cabinet meeting on France's devastating wildfires

f24.myLive: Macron to hold crisis cabinet meeting on France's devastating wildfiresFrench President Emmanuel Macron will hold a crisis cabinet meeting Monday on the wildfires spreading across southern France. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will visit fire-hit areas in Valencia in the east of Spain, where firefighters are battling a new blaze that has forced thousands to flee their homes. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.