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Farewell Transmission - Orion Magazine
May 22, 2024 · On the collective genius of Jason Molina’s Magnolia Electric Co. IF YOU BELIEVE the legend (and I have no reason to doubt it), in July 2002, Jason Molina—who’d recorded six previous albums under the moniker Songs: Ohia—set up in a Chicago recording studio, where a rotating cast of musical collaborators joined him.Many of these musicians hadn’t before played together, and in some ...
Submission Guidelines - Orion Magazine
What Are We looking for? Thank you for considering submitting your work and ideas to Orion.. Before submitting a pitch, the most important thing we can suggest is that you familiarize yourself Orion and consider how your work is appropriate for our pages.Orion is about exploring environmental and social issues and looking at what and …
The Vaster Wilds: A Conversation with Lauren Groff
Nov 8, 2023 · The character at the center of Lauren Groff’s new novel, The Vaster Wilds, is on the run, and though for a long time we’re not quite sure what from, you can at least measure the trauma by what she’s willing to endure to get away from it: fever, starvation, sleeplessness, nightmares of being sniffed and licked by wild beasts, and …
This Artist Creates Stunning Works Out of Ocean Trash
Sep 5, 2023 · Riley’s work addresses the tension between individual and collective behavior, independent spaces within all-encompassing societies, and conflict with institutional power, writes the artist. He examines transgression zones and their inhabitants through drawing, printmaking, mosaic, sculpture, performative interventions, infiltrations, and video structured as complex multimedia installations.
The Best of Wendell Berry - Orion Magazine
Aug 5, 2020 · Wendell Berry has been an Orion contributor and advisor since the magazine’s beginnings in 1982. Berry is the author of over forty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and has farmed in Port Royal, Kentucky, for over forty years.
A Peek at the Tiny Worlds of the Appalachian Mountains
Sep 3, 2024 · The Appalachian Mountains house one of the most popular hiking destinations in the United States. Every year, millions of people visit the Appalachian Trail to take in sweeping mountain views and test their hiking mettle, but how many pause to crouch low and notice its smallest of denizens?
Artist Shaun Tan Makes the Familiar Strange - Orion Magazine
Oct 26, 2022 · Kyo Maclear: First, let me say what a delight it was to spend time with your beautiful book.Can you talk about the origins of Creature?. Shaun Tan: Books for me are a bit like planets. Initially, there’s a lot of gas and dust floating around in space – different ideas, sketches, notes – and through some gravity of their own, these things gather into something with mass, density, and (if ...
Pick Your Poem: 6 Poems to Transport You into the Natural World
Apr 2, 2024 · AS PART OF HER tenure as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and in association with the Library of Congress, Ada Limón commissioned fifty-two contemporary American poets to reflect on their place in the natural world. The resulting anthology of original poems grounded in the natural world is as deeply personal as it is beautifully universal. Combined, these words are an enticing invitation to see ...
Four Questions for the Author: Timothy Morton, Being Ecological
Sep 22, 2018 · Timothy Morton is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence; Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (with Marcus Boon and Eric Cazdyn); H yperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, and other books.. His most recent book, Being Ecological (MIT Press), is “a book about ecology without information ...