![]() ![]() Subscribe: Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS Interview highlights: Stream or download our conversation here. We discussed the new Library of America collection, Carson’s literary talents, how researching and communicating environmental health has changed since Carson’s day, criticisms of Silent Spring, the gender politics of environmental science, and the new documentary Unfractured, which chronicles Steingraber’s successful battles against fracking at home and abroad. ![]() I had the privilege of speaking by phone with Sandra Steingraber on March 30. The two women share many experiences: academic training in the sciences, battles with cancer, reluctant entries in the realm of activism, and a gift for rendering dry data into rich, startling narratives. Sandra Steingraber is an inspired choice to assemble this collection. But now she is being recognized as a prose stylist. Carson does not want for fame as a historical figure, often mentioned alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe and Upton Sinclair as an author of a book that catalyzed dramatic social and political change. Endeavoring “ to celebrate the words that have shaped America,” the publisher considers the more than 300 volumes in its catalog as “America’s literary canon.” In April, Rachel Carson rose to these esteemed ranks with the publication of the latest Library of America title, Rachel Carson: Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment, edited by Sandra Steingraber. For forty years, the Library of America has published distinctive cloth-bound volumes of the towering figures in American letters. ![]()
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