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“In the real world, a river that’s granted personhood is appointed guardians—humans—to represent it in court.”
“Eliot and Joan Didion Really Meant With Their Most Famous Aphorisms Personal Yet Systemic: On Antiblackness as a Social, Historical and Cultural Phenomenon Nina Schuyler on Personifying a River in Craft and Creative Voice Literary Hub Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Advertisers: Contact Us Privacy Policy Support Lit Hub - Become A Member If you buy books linked on our site, Lit Hub may earn a commission from Bookshop.org , whose fees support independent bookstores.”
“NS: I was writing and writing this novel and my husband turned on a beautiful, haunting, gorgeous song.”
“JC: What draws you to climate fiction?”
“______________________________ Open the Floodgates by Nina Schuyler is available from Reverberations Books.”
“Do it!” JC: How would you trace the evolution of Open the Floodgates ?”
“All the River’s metaphors would invoke an image from nature.”
“* Jane Ciabattari: In our last conversation about In This Ravishing World , which won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, the W.S.”
“NS: During law school, my favorite class was water law.”
“That’s too close to what humans have done to rivers, which is to turn them into straight lines for our convenience.”
“Around the third draft, I thought: the River wouldn’t move down the page in a straight block of text.”
“The water didn’t make it that far, but for many people, the creek took back their first floor and more.”
“JC: How did you envision the river as a character, as a voice, as a consciousness, as a physical presence, as imagined on the page and also as evoked by the type on the page?”
“Which of her books did you read first?”
“Her reviews, interviews and cultural criticism have appeared in NPR, BBC Culture, the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Bookforum, Paris Review, the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times , among other publications.”
“I was—and am—in awe of her style, her innovation, her ear for language.”
“author interview climate fiction interviews Jane Ciabattari Nina Schuyler Open the Floodgates Reverberations Books Jane Ciabattari Jane Ciabattari, author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire, is a former National Book Critics Circle president (currently on the Advisory Board ) and a member of the Writers Grotto and Page Street.”
“The lake is surrounded by Douglas fir and hidden homes.”
“Article continues after advertisement Her family also spent a lot of time at Puget Sound.”
“Over the years, I’ve followed the legal trend of granting personhood to natural entities: rivers, mountains, forests, sea turtles, valleys.”
“I gave the opening twenty pages to a couple of writer friends and asked if it was working.”
“I wanted the reader to feel the movement, the swing and sway.”
“Instead, when the River moved, it would wind its way down the page, swaying left and right.”