By John D’Agata. Norton, $23.95 Parul Sehgal, Time Out New York / Issue 750 : Feb 8–17, 2010 John D’Agata’s About a Mountain is, among other things, a study of political myopia, nuclear threat and activism coalescing at Yucca Mountain, where, until very recently, the federal government planned to entomb high-level nuclear waste. If he had [...]
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About a Mountain
Posted in Reviews, tagged Book Rev, John D'Agata, Nonfiction review, Yucca Mountain on February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Not In My Backyard: PW talks John D’Agata
Posted in Interviews, tagged Author Interviews, Interview with John D'Agata, John D'Agata, Las Vegas, Nevada, nuclear waste, suicide, Yucca Mountain on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Parul Sehgal — Publishers Weekly, 12/21/2009 D’Agata uses Nevada’s Yucca Mountain, once a proposed site for storing the U.S.’s nuclear waste, to meditate on a variety of ecological, political, and personal topics, including the suicide of Levi, a Las Vegan teenager, in About a Mountain (Reviews, Dec. 21). Why did Yucca resonate so powerfully with [...]
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