Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Cocaine, Schizophrenia, and Nuclear Reactors: Life as an RCC Editor
By Brenda Black Our work as editors at the RCC requires us to be generalists (because of the wide variety of topics encountered), but also capable of interpreting highly specialized texts (because it is impossible to edit what one does not understand). For one issue of Perspectives, my google search history included: cocaine, schizophrenia, bottlenecking,…
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“Nature, Red in Tooth and Clawâ€: Jiang Rong’s “Wolf Totem”
Post by Brenda Black Jiang Rong’s autobiographical novel Wolf Totem was one of the group reads for the Global Environment Summer Academy held at the Rachel Carson Center last August. It recounts the experiences of a Chinese college student, Chen Zhen (the author’s alter ego), sent to live among the nomadic herders of Inner Mongolia…