John’s essay, “Getting to a Tribe of One,” has been published in the Spring 2021 edition of Dark Mountain. The Dark Mountain Project says, “We are walking away from the stories that our societies like to tell themselves, the stories that prevent us seeing clearly the extent of the ecological, social and cultural unravelling that is now underway. We are making art that doesn’t take the centrality of humans for granted. We are tracing the deep cultural roots of the mess the world is in. And we are looking for other stories, ones that can help us make sense of a time of disruption and uncertainty.“
A Hundred Little Pieces Excerpted at The Dark Mountain Project
The Dark Mountain Project has posted on their website three excerpts from A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World. John’s writing has been included in six of the Dark Mountain anthologies. Many of the essays in A Hundred Little Pieces first appeared there, in altered form.
New essay published in Dark Mountain Project Vol. 16
John’s latest essay, “On Going to My Sixtieth High School Reunion, or What I Think About While Running Uphill” will soon be published in the tenth anniversary issue (Vol. 16) of The Dark Mountain Project. The essay is a meditation on aging, adolescent selves, authoritarian rulers, environmental super-villains, the dinosaurs who were too big to get on Noah’s Ark, and getting together with old classmates in the afterlife.