Daily Archives: February 8, 2018
10 Years of Big Ideas at Whatever
Posted on February 8, 2018 41 Comments
On January 22, 2008, the first “Big Idea” post went up here on Whatever, for Marcus Sakey’s At the City’s Edge. The latest one, for Sue Burke’s Semiosis, went up just this morning. All told, including the first and the most recent posts, 828 books have been featured in the Big Idea in a decade, […]
The Big Idea: Sue Burke
Posted on February 8, 2018 12 Comments
Got some houseplants? By the time you finish reading Sue Burke’s Big Idea essay about her novel Semiosis, you’ll never look at them the same way again. That’s pretty much a promise. SUE BURKE: Who’s in charge of the planet where you live? Is it you – that is, humans? Maybe. But not everything living […]
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