The fictional foods of climate novels emphasize the everyday violence of dwelling in crisis.

On the challenges facing the contemporary writer who dares to question the status quo. 

Historical forces have replaced older modes of meaning-making that rely on representation and critique with new modes of meaning-making that rely on connection, adjacency, being, transmission, and presence. It’s not surprising, then, that today’s authors and readers have changing notions of what it means to mean.

Seen through a sociologist’s eyes, the literary system can look very strange indeed.