Center for Science and the Imagination | Unnatural Disasters Book Launch, featuring Victor LaValle, Carmen Maria Machado, and Christopher Cox @imagineASU | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Orion Magazine and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination present a conversation between two leading authors of speculative writing—Victor LaValle and Carmen Maria Machado—to celebrate the launch of Orion’s most recent anthology, "Unnatural Disasters: Tales of Enchantment, Danger, and Survival from Orion Magazine."
"Unnatural Disasters" collects the scariest stories published in the pages of Orion. Featuring work by writers including Jesse Ball, Samantha Hunt, and Lauren Groff, as well as LaValle and Machado, the anthology explores nature’s dark side: strange phenomena, unforgiving and unwelcoming environments, peril and risk, decay and collapse.
To learn more about "Unnatural Disasters" and order a copy, visit orionmagazine.org/product/unnatural-disasters-tales-of-enchantment-danger-and-survival-from-orion-magazine.
About the Speakers:
Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection "Slapboxing with Jesus," five novels, including "The Ecstatic" and "Big Machine," and two novellas, "Lucretia and the Kroons" and "The Ballad of Black Tom." He is also the creator and writer of two comic books, "Victor LaValle’s Destroyer" and "Eve." In 2023, his novel "The Changeling" was adapted into a series starring LaKeith Stanfield for Apple TV+. He has been the winner of the World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, and Shirley Jackson Award.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir "In the Dream House," the graphic novel "The Low, Low Woods," and the short story collection "Her Body and Other Parties." She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and the Lambda Literary Awards for Lesbian Fiction and LGBTQ Nonfiction. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, The Believer, Guernica, and elsewhere.
Christopher Cox is the co-editor of "Unnatural Disasters" and editor-at-large at Orion Magazine. He is the former editor of Harper’s Magazine and a former senior editor of The Paris Review. Work that he has edited has won the National Magazine Award, the PEN Literary Award for Journalism, an Overseas Press Club award, and has been included in several Best American collections.
The event is introduced by Joey Eschrich, managing editor at the Center for Science and the Imagination.
About Orion Magazine:
Orion Magazine invites readers into a community of caring for the planet. Through writing and art that explore the connection between nature and culture, Orion inspires new thinking about how humanity might live on Earth justly, sustainably, and joyously. Learn more at https://orionmagazine.org.
About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
Orion Magazine and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination present a conversation between two leading authors of speculative writing—Victor LaValle and Carmen Maria Machado—to celebrate the launch of Orion’s most recent anthology, "Unnatural Disasters: Tales of Enchantment, Danger, and Survival from Orion Magazine."
"Unnatural Disasters" collects the scariest stories published in the pages of Orion. Featuring work by writers including Jesse Ball, Samantha Hunt, and Lauren Groff, as well as LaValle and Machado, the anthology explores nature’s dark side: strange phenomena, unforgiving and unwelcoming environments, peril and risk, decay and collapse.
To learn more about "Unnatural Disasters" and order a copy, visit orionmagazine.org/product/unnatural-disasters-tales-of-enchantment-danger-and-survival-from-orion-magazine.
About the Speakers:
Victor LaValle is the author of the short story collection "Slapboxing with Jesus," five novels, including "The Ecstatic" and "Big Machine," and two novellas, "Lucretia and the Kroons" and "The Ballad of Black Tom." He is also the creator and writer of two comic books, "Victor LaValle’s Destroyer" and "Eve." In 2023, his novel "The Changeling" was adapted into a series starring LaKeith Stanfield for Apple TV+. He has been the winner of the World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, and Shirley Jackson Award.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir "In the Dream House," the graphic novel "The Low, Low Woods," and the short story collection "Her Body and Other Parties." She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and the Lambda Literary Awards for Lesbian Fiction and LGBTQ Nonfiction. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, The Believer, Guernica, and elsewhere.
Christopher Cox is the co-editor of "Unnatural Disasters" and editor-at-large at Orion Magazine. He is the former editor of Harper’s Magazine and a former senior editor of The Paris Review. Work that he has edited has won the National Magazine Award, the PEN Literary Award for Journalism, an Overseas Press Club award, and has been included in several Best American collections.
The event is introduced by Joey Eschrich, managing editor at the Center for Science and the Imagination.
About Orion Magazine:
Orion Magazine invites readers into a community of caring for the planet. Through writing and art that explore the connection between nature and culture, Orion inspires new thinking about how humanity might live on Earth justly, sustainably, and joyously. Learn more at https://orionmagazine.org.
About the Center for Science and the Imagination:
The Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University engages in research, outreach and radical collaborations to reinvent our relationship with the future. From writers, artists, and teachers to scientists, engineers, and technologists, we bring diverse intellectual practices together to create visions of the future that are inspiring, inclusive, and imaginative. Learn more at https://csi.asu.edu.
