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The Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady

Season 1 Episode 35 | 12m 27s

Climate Fiction comes in all sorts of forms, there’s your Mad Maxes, your Games of Thrones, your Parables of the Sowers, and your WALL-Es. But are Cli-Fi books, movies, and TV shows just capitalizing on a hot topic, or do they actually change people’s perceptions of climate change? Lindsay Ellis, of It’s Lit, and Amy Brady, the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Review of Books, help us find out.

Aired: 10/03/19
Extras
Eliza faces a conflict of interests when looking into the personal life of Commissioner Fitzroy.
Eliza explores the cut-throat world of Victorian theater.
Eliza’s life is turned upside down when she finds herself dragged into a missing persons case.
Eliza is caught in the middle of a clash between Fleet Street and Scotland Yard.
Eliza is tasked with solving the murder of a high-profile private detective.
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Appraisal: W. Sharlhorne "Time for Man and Beast" Art, ca. 1995
Appraisal: Jerry Casebier Carved Wooden Sculpture, ca. 1970
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