Author Events (Medienpräsenz)

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Bill McKibben, der laut Time der „beste Umweltjournalist der Welt“ ist, hat schon 1989 in seinem Buch „The End of Nature“ als einer der Ersten vor der globalen Erwärmung gewarnt. Zu seinen vielen anderen Bestsellern über die Umwelt gehören „Deep Economy“, „Eaarth“ und „Oil and Honey“ sowie der Roman „Radio Free Vermont“, in dem er sich eine Gruppe von Patrioten aus Vermont vorstellt, die beschließen, sich von den Vereinigten Staaten abzuspalten. 

McKibben, der 2013 den Gandhi-Friedenspreis bekam, ist Schumann Distinguished Scholar am Middlebury College und Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In „Falter“ warnt er eindringlich vor dem schwindenden Raum, in dem die Zivilisation existieren kann.


“The world’s best green journalist” (Time), Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about global warming with his 1989 book The End of Nature. His many other bestselling books about the environment include Deep Economy, Eaarth, and Oil and Honey; as well as a novel, Radio Free Vermont, which imagines a band of Vermont patriots who decide to secede from the United States. 

Recipient of the 2013 Gandhi Peace Award, McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In Falter, he offers a dire warning about the shrinking space in which civilization can exist.

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Frank B. Wilderson III spent more than five years in South Africa, where he was one of two Americans elected to the African National Congress during the country’s transformation after apartheid. His books include Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid and Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, and he served as a dramaturge for the Lincoln Center Theater in New York and the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Chair of African American Studies and professor in the Culture & Theory Doctoral Program at the University of California, Irvine, he has been honored with the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction and an NEA Literature Fellowship. In Afropessimism, Wilderson fuses innovative philosophy with trenchant memoir to argue slavery’s unique historical social position and its pervasiveness even today.