Warmth
Coming of Age at the End of Our World
(Sprache: Englisch)
From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe
"Strikingly perceptive." -Jenny Offill, author of Weather
"Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest." -Jenny Odell, author of How to Do...
"Strikingly perceptive." -Jenny Offill, author of Weather
"Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest." -Jenny Odell, author of How to Do...
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From a millennial climate activist, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe"Strikingly perceptive." -Jenny Offill, author of Weather
"Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest." -Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing
Warmth is a new kind of book about climate change: not what it is or how we solve it, but how it feels to imagine a future-and a family-under its weight. In a fiercely personal account written from inside the climate movement, Sherrell lays bare how the crisis is transforming our relationships to time, to hope, and to each other. At once a memoir, a love letter, and an electric work of criticism, Warmth goes to the heart of the defining question of our time: how do we go on in a world that may not?
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CorrespondenceOn April 14, 2018, a civil rights lawyer named David Buckel burned himself alive in Prospect Park. He did it alone, just before sunrise, a brief illumination on a peripheral lawn. A cyclist found his body in a circle of char, though she had to pass by several times to be sure of what she'd seen. Later, she told reporters: it was hard to make myself believe it.
The suicide was well planned, even courteous. Buckel had cleared a ring of dirt around himself to keep the flames from spreading. "I apologize to you for the mess" read a note found by the police in a shopping cart next to the scene. A longer letter had already been emailed out to the press. This was an "early death by fossil fuel," it read. "It reflects what we are doing to ourselves."
I spent most of that day across town in Central Park. I remember it was gorgeous outside and the lakes were all crowded with rowboats, little schools of them flitting back and forth behind the curtain of the willows. I found a perch on top of a small hill and watched the loop road swell with people. Somewhere out of sight, a stoplight was releasing them in pulses: the tourists in their carriages, the cyclists, the loping Rollerbladers. They passed quickly and suddenly, then a beat of empty road, and then the unseen light changed once more, presumably, and the next wave came streaming past. The scene reminded me of a Bruegel painting IÕd first come across in a history textbook: a landscape of a village in winter, painted from atop a nearby hill. In it, you can see hunters and woodcutters going about their business, ice-skaters crisscrossing a pond, chimneys smoking in snow. According to the textbook, this painting was meant somehow to delineate the beginning of the Renaissance. As if all it took was a small vantage, the right flow of people, to funnel the whole historical watershed.
After a while, I
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fell asleep in the grass, and when I woke up the temperature had dropped and the picnics dissipated. The few people still out seemed in a hurry to get home. I walked back through the park toward the East Side, past the closing museums, past the expensive boutiques that mimicked the museums, single handbags underlit in glass display cases. Then down the stairs to the train, which I took back to the Bronx. It was only once I stepped into my darkened apartment that I saw the news from Prospect Park, glancing past it on my phone and then scrolling slowly back up, registering what I'd read.
What struck me even more than the tragedy-and it did strike me, a slow onset, so that I failed to make dinner that night, and eventually, at a loss for what to do once I finally tore myself from the screen, went to bed without ever having turned on the lights-was how quickly the event, this flicker of violence, was subsumed once more into the general mill of the park. Was forgotten, essentially. Beyond the cordon of police tape, the newspapers reported, the barbecues continued as normal, the corporate kickball games resumed. Participants in a charity walk strode industriously by in matching purple T-shirts, which predicted, in cursive quotes, that an end to pancreatic cancer was at hand. Wage Hope, the shirts read. The moment had rolled on, in other words. And I'm only being partially rhetorical when I ask you: What else could it have possibly done?
Afterward, I felt irrationally like I should have been able to detect some ripple when it happened, a subtle shock wave passing from his park to mine, like a bell tolled to part one hour from the next. Undoubtedly the news alerts had been piling up in my pocket, but I'd set my phone on silent and so hadn't felt even those regular vibrations I'd grown accustomed to associating with tragedy. While the man burned-the flames carbonizing his skin, then evaporating his blood-I hadn't felt a thing. It had been a beautiful day
What struck me even more than the tragedy-and it did strike me, a slow onset, so that I failed to make dinner that night, and eventually, at a loss for what to do once I finally tore myself from the screen, went to bed without ever having turned on the lights-was how quickly the event, this flicker of violence, was subsumed once more into the general mill of the park. Was forgotten, essentially. Beyond the cordon of police tape, the newspapers reported, the barbecues continued as normal, the corporate kickball games resumed. Participants in a charity walk strode industriously by in matching purple T-shirts, which predicted, in cursive quotes, that an end to pancreatic cancer was at hand. Wage Hope, the shirts read. The moment had rolled on, in other words. And I'm only being partially rhetorical when I ask you: What else could it have possibly done?
Afterward, I felt irrationally like I should have been able to detect some ripple when it happened, a subtle shock wave passing from his park to mine, like a bell tolled to part one hour from the next. Undoubtedly the news alerts had been piling up in my pocket, but I'd set my phone on silent and so hadn't felt even those regular vibrations I'd grown accustomed to associating with tragedy. While the man burned-the flames carbonizing his skin, then evaporating his blood-I hadn't felt a thing. It had been a beautiful day
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Autoren-Porträt von Daniel Sherrell
Daniel Sherrell is an organizer born in 1990. He helped lead the campaign to pass landmark climate justice legislation in New York and is the recipient of a Fulbright grant in creative nonfiction. Warmth is his first book.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Daniel Sherrell
- 2021, 272 Seiten, 1 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 12,8 x 19,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 0143136534
- ISBN-13: 9780143136538
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.08.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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[Sherrell] moves fluently among thinkers such as Bill McKibben, Saidiya Hartman, and Maggie Nelson . . . captur[ing] the complicated correspondence between hope and doubt, faith and despair . . . [Warmth is] an achievement, reflective of the serpentine struggle with self-doubt . . . speaking to an unborn child allows [Sherrell] to extend beyond his own relative comfort, and this involves its own kind of faith, a solidarity with the world to come that we won t see . . . remind[ing] us that there will be no further salvation from afar, only a need to look harder, and closer. The New Yorker Sherrell s diverse emotional palate may in fact reflect the ambivalence most of us feel when it comes to issues of climate change. We generally don t think about the Problem, as Sherrell calls it, until our thoughts about it are too much to bear . . . Sherrell awakens a new urgency for reform. Our choices today have an impact on the environment in years to come, we know. But in Warmth, Sherrell makes concrete what is generally too abstract or distant for us to really feel. The Washington Post
[Written] with incisive, ground-level urgency . . . Sherrell is an immensely talented young writer who cares deeply about his subject . . . Warmth should be required reading for anyone who questions the depth, tenacity, and critical thinking skills of millennials . . . Sherrell could have responded with a pure screed. Instead he s come up with something more potent: an existential yawp, freighted with the ballast of knowledge and intent. Reading Warmth means accepting the challenge of caring, and perhaps even doing something about it. The Boston Globe
[A] book that reads like a long conversation with a very thoughtful friend. WIRED
Warmth is a doleful and frequently moving phenomenological account of what it means to pursue a vocation as a climate activist in a world careening from crisis to anthropogenic crisis a blazing work of emergency
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ecocriticism . . . refreshingly different . . . an avowedly future-orientated work that revives climate writing. The Hedgehog Review
Warmth shows us a new way to tell the story of how we might cope and survive a future of catastrophe. The Nation
[Warmth] provides insight on how to navigate a world threatened by climate change from the overwhelming anxiety it conjures to the existential quandary it wreaks. The Cut
[Warmth] is a blueprint [...] for learning how a person might gain clarity on a phenomenon that is so ever-present that it is almost invisible until the waves are at your door . . . [Sherrell] lay[s] out the hypocrisy and the numbness and the despair and the hope and the uncertainty and the culpability all the mess of trying to live simultaneously within and outside of the Problem and ask[s] an altogether new question: What now? Warmth is delicate at times, brutal at others, but it is always thoughtfully rendered, and often beautifully so. The Colorado Review
Sherrell brilliantly balances despair and hope in his searing debut . . . [with] nuanced reflections on how a caring and thoughtful person should respond to climate change . . . This indelible, necessary work makes a global issue deeply personal. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
[An] eerie and gorgeous book . . . [Warmth] will validate the fears, grief, and nostalgia that readers of any generation feel about the future of our planet. There is much collective comfort to be found while naming the specifics of such an overwhelming topic, and Sherrell offers that comfort generously on every page. Booklist (starred review)
[Sherrell] writes with clarity and emotion . . . a compelling, urgent work . . . This is the type of coming-of-age book one must read in order to understand what it means to live with clear-eyed awareness of the climate disaster while also continuing to move forward . . . Brave, honest, and bold, Sherrell s book is neither blithely optimistic nor fatalistic and instead shows how readers can respond to climate change with circumspection. It should be read alongside the work of climate activists like Greta Thunberg and Jamie Margolin. Library Journal (starred review)
Sherrell is a passionate advocate for the climate movement, which he conveys with urgency and honest, raw emotion, expressing an anxiety he feels has infiltrated the essence of his being. He writes with a frightening sense of gravity . . . Warmth is a pleading, informative call to action. BookPage
Insightful reflections from a thoughtful, energetic activist. Kirkus Reviews
Sherrell's strikingly perceptive book is neither a prescription for hope or for despair, but a call for a clear-eyed examination of one of the most pressing questions of our time what do we owe the next generation? Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation
Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest, this book helped me do the impossible: live in the space between grief and hope. Jenny Odell, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing
Searchingly honest, this fine book is the work of someone actively engaged in the most important fight of our time (maybe of all time), and also of a writer able to establish the necessary distance. Dan Sherrell is smart, obviously, but he's also something much more important: open, vulnerable, able to face fully that which we all must grapple with in this overheating century. Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author of Falter
In this insider account of the struggle for the earth against the forces of corporate greed that threaten it, Daniel Sherrell has written a tender letter to the uncertain future at once intimate and angry, exasperated and brave. Anne Boyer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Undying
Warmth is a moving, beautifully written memoir of an activist's coming-of-age in this era of climate disruption. It is also a powerful and profound meditation on writing, language and story-telling, and their relationship to politics and activism. Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Little has been written that so vividly captures what it is like to be young and so-very-much alive in the wealthiest nation in the world as it comes undone. Daniel Sherrell s Warmth is a groundbreaking work that illustrates how to fight emotionally, intellectually, physically, with all one s might for a future worth inhabiting. Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
Wow . . . This book blew my heart open. Franny Choi, author of Soft Science (via Instagram)
An urgent cri de coeur from a passionate and clear-eyed new talent. Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of The Ministry for the Future
[Warmth] speaks powerfully to all generations . . . Impassioned, conflicted, dogged, poetic, hugely intelligent, Warmth is a personal meditation on how to act and grieve at the same time, how to keep faith and fight for the future as you watch it disappear. Kim Mahood, author of Position Doubtful
By speaking directly to the future [...] Sherrell manages the neat trick of imagining how we might get there with our wits and hopes intact. Peter Friederici, author of Beyond Climate Breakdown
Warmth shows us a new way to tell the story of how we might cope and survive a future of catastrophe. The Nation
[Warmth] provides insight on how to navigate a world threatened by climate change from the overwhelming anxiety it conjures to the existential quandary it wreaks. The Cut
[Warmth] is a blueprint [...] for learning how a person might gain clarity on a phenomenon that is so ever-present that it is almost invisible until the waves are at your door . . . [Sherrell] lay[s] out the hypocrisy and the numbness and the despair and the hope and the uncertainty and the culpability all the mess of trying to live simultaneously within and outside of the Problem and ask[s] an altogether new question: What now? Warmth is delicate at times, brutal at others, but it is always thoughtfully rendered, and often beautifully so. The Colorado Review
Sherrell brilliantly balances despair and hope in his searing debut . . . [with] nuanced reflections on how a caring and thoughtful person should respond to climate change . . . This indelible, necessary work makes a global issue deeply personal. Publishers Weekly (starred review)
[An] eerie and gorgeous book . . . [Warmth] will validate the fears, grief, and nostalgia that readers of any generation feel about the future of our planet. There is much collective comfort to be found while naming the specifics of such an overwhelming topic, and Sherrell offers that comfort generously on every page. Booklist (starred review)
[Sherrell] writes with clarity and emotion . . . a compelling, urgent work . . . This is the type of coming-of-age book one must read in order to understand what it means to live with clear-eyed awareness of the climate disaster while also continuing to move forward . . . Brave, honest, and bold, Sherrell s book is neither blithely optimistic nor fatalistic and instead shows how readers can respond to climate change with circumspection. It should be read alongside the work of climate activists like Greta Thunberg and Jamie Margolin. Library Journal (starred review)
Sherrell is a passionate advocate for the climate movement, which he conveys with urgency and honest, raw emotion, expressing an anxiety he feels has infiltrated the essence of his being. He writes with a frightening sense of gravity . . . Warmth is a pleading, informative call to action. BookPage
Insightful reflections from a thoughtful, energetic activist. Kirkus Reviews
Sherrell's strikingly perceptive book is neither a prescription for hope or for despair, but a call for a clear-eyed examination of one of the most pressing questions of our time what do we owe the next generation? Jenny Offill, New York Times bestselling author of Weather and Dept. of Speculation
Beautifully rendered and bracingly honest, this book helped me do the impossible: live in the space between grief and hope. Jenny Odell, New York Times bestselling author of How to Do Nothing
Searchingly honest, this fine book is the work of someone actively engaged in the most important fight of our time (maybe of all time), and also of a writer able to establish the necessary distance. Dan Sherrell is smart, obviously, but he's also something much more important: open, vulnerable, able to face fully that which we all must grapple with in this overheating century. Bill McKibben, New York Times bestselling author of Falter
In this insider account of the struggle for the earth against the forces of corporate greed that threaten it, Daniel Sherrell has written a tender letter to the uncertain future at once intimate and angry, exasperated and brave. Anne Boyer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Undying
Warmth is a moving, beautifully written memoir of an activist's coming-of-age in this era of climate disruption. It is also a powerful and profound meditation on writing, language and story-telling, and their relationship to politics and activism. Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Little has been written that so vividly captures what it is like to be young and so-very-much alive in the wealthiest nation in the world as it comes undone. Daniel Sherrell s Warmth is a groundbreaking work that illustrates how to fight emotionally, intellectually, physically, with all one s might for a future worth inhabiting. Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
Wow . . . This book blew my heart open. Franny Choi, author of Soft Science (via Instagram)
An urgent cri de coeur from a passionate and clear-eyed new talent. Kim Stanley Robinson, New York Times bestselling author of The Ministry for the Future
[Warmth] speaks powerfully to all generations . . . Impassioned, conflicted, dogged, poetic, hugely intelligent, Warmth is a personal meditation on how to act and grieve at the same time, how to keep faith and fight for the future as you watch it disappear. Kim Mahood, author of Position Doubtful
By speaking directly to the future [...] Sherrell manages the neat trick of imagining how we might get there with our wits and hopes intact. Peter Friederici, author of Beyond Climate Breakdown
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