Hot Mess

The Rise of Climate Fiction feat. Lindsay Ellis & Amy Brady

01/10/2020 | 12m 27s

Climate Fiction comes in all sorts of forms, there’s your Mad Maxes, your Games of Thrones, your Parables of the Sowers, and your WALL-Es. But are Cli-Fi books, movies, and TV shows just capitalizing on a hot topic, or do they actually change people’s perceptions of climate change? Lindsay Ellis, of It’s Lit, and Amy Brady, the editor-in-chief of The Chicago Review of Books, help us find out.

Aired: 01/10/20 | Rating: NR

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