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McKibben Q&A on new novel in Portland Press Herald

November 7, 2017

Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben took part in a Q&A on his new fiction book “Radio Free Vermont”.

From the article:

Q: What made you decide that it was time to write a full-length work of fiction?

A: I’d been writing the novel in little pieces for some years, partly just to amuse myself and to keep myself sane in the midst of all the other work I was up to. This seemed like the right time to publish it. There’s this beautiful wave of resistance underway around the world, especially in this country, post-election of Trump. It seemed like a moment to try to celebrate that resistance and provide some creative ideas about where it might go.

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