![]() ![]() She asked the narrator to be that person. On a more personal level, the narrator's old friend, a famous writer and intellectual, is dying of cancer and wants her final days to be spent in solitude but wants a friend to be with her. He angers audiences by suggesting maybe it's time to stop having children. The narrator of the new novel is a woman whose ex is a well-known professor and author who's been writing and giving talks about how climate change, bioterrorism, cyberterrorism, the threat of a pandemic, far-right regimes and corporate power are a threat to life, liberty and civilization. She wrote it before the pandemic, but one of her previous novels was set during a flu pandemic that results in anarchy. ![]() My guest Sigrid Nunez has written a new novel that's about facing the possible death of our planet from climate change while also dealing with our mortality as individuals. ![]()
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