Megan Nichols' Substack
Megan Nichols is an Arkansas based writer. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Oxford American, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. She is the managing Editor of Variant Literature.
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I Never Want to Read About Climate Change (opens the original)
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I never seek out books on climate change. What I learn usually comes through laced fingers reading headlines and watching sixty-second clips. A few times a year I brace myself for a barrage of articles consumed anxiously about wildfires, heat waves, hurricanes, and global warming.. Informed and utterly overwhelmed, I return to my life with a sense of dread and powerlessness. When my friend Jessica Lohafer suggested we read Little Apocalypses: Essays on Motherhood, Climate Change, and Hope at the
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