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One that you might like is The After Normal, brief, alphabetic essays on a changing planet

by David Carlin and Nicole Walker.

In our era of interconnected ecological, political, and human rights catastrophes,

David Carlin and Nicole Walker contemplate the role of the individual

in the midst of increasingly inescapable collective action crises

that call the very concept of survival into question.

In this eccentric, intimate compendium of short environmental and personal essays,

the authors engage in a long-distance dialogue, creating an improvisational subversion

of the encyclopedia, a witty yet serious parody of a survival guide,

using equally to find solace and false hopes, or given to murky despair.

Carlin and Walker definitely use the flash nonfiction form to wonder and worry their way through the alphabet.

The After Normal, brief, alphabetic essays on a changing planet

by David Carlin and Nicole Walker, out now from Rose Metal Press.

Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver and a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

How did the American economy go from unionized industry and sectors like Steele

to precarious service work in industries like hospitals?

And how did it come to be that healthcare is the largest sector of employment in the country,

particularly so in de-industrialized cities?

The New Deal era is often considered a golden age for the white working class.

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