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      <image:title>Blog - Catharsis is Ascending to a Higher Plane of Existence - What?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Due to the talent of our many contributors and the hard work of our staff, Catharsis has simply become too good. The team had to come up with a strategy to contain our power and maintain order, which led to a tough decision. After much deliberation, Catharsis has decided that the best course of action would be to backflip off the mortal coil and continue to exist only in a space beyond human comprehension. Following the dissolution of the Magid Center, we gained some experience with moving departments, so we expect the transition to go smoothly.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Nonfiction the Catharsis Crew Has Been Enjoying - “Here is a story: around other girls I was fat and misfit, condemned by some inherent flaw in my body's constitution. Here is another story: around men I was desirable, possessed by a flickering power that I did not know how to control.”</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Nonfiction the Catharsis Crew Has Been Enjoying - I recently read Joan Didion’s popular essay “On Keeping a Notebook,” which is featured in her essay collection titled Slouching Towards Bethlehem. I think it’s both an excellent piece of nonfiction and an excellent piece on writing nonfiction. Didion’s voice is engaging and interrogative, pulling the reader into scenes from her life via notebook entries and ultimately grounding us in the fact that to keep a notebook is to “keep in touch,” like being pen-pals with old versions of ourselves. She questions the nature and relevance of truth in recording personal moments and events. Recalling a particular entry, she says that “perhaps it never did snow that August in Vermont… but that was how it felt to me, and it might as well have snowed, could have snowed, did snow.” If it takes you back to that moment, makes you smell the air and hear the noises surrounding you and feel the weight of its emotion, then just maybe it’s the truth. At least I think Joan Didion thinks so.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Nonfiction the Catharsis Crew Has Been Enjoying - When I visited the Mission Creek Book Fair, Elena Passarello’s Animals Strike Curious Poses caught my eye. This essay collection highlights various famous animals throughout history. With its fascinating trivia and introspective musing, this book was exactly my cup of tea. I think it’s a great example of research-based creative nonfiction. Passarello’s narratives cover events from the past in a factual manner, yet she maneuvers those stories into something more metaphorical and thought-provoking by making creative connections. In an interview with Jess Kibler of Tin House (now the McCormack Writing Center), she says, “It’s such a humbling experience to engage in an act of research. I also love the way that it allows me to sort of geek out and feel like I’m sharing new information, so there’s that selfish motivation. And I think it helps me express things without being personal, which is very important to me, because I rarely flex that personal muscle successfully. It’s not that I discount other people who do, but my engine doesn’t work in that way”. A through-line of this book is looking at how humans project certain things about themselves onto the animals. In the same way, nonfiction writers can project their personal thoughts and experiences onto other stories, be it through an essay about a historical event, a scientific finding, or even a literary critique.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Environmental Literature Recs - 1. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson</image:title>
      <image:caption>“It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and wood and marsh.” It is only right that I start with this book. Lauded as the ‘Classic that launched the Environmental Movement,’ Silent Spring exposed the connection between the use of DDT (a synthetic insecticide) and the decrease in bird populations. This book was vital for the environmental movement in the United States as it inspired the creation of environmental legislation and agencies. It is important because it shows just how powerful we are when it comes to protecting our environment. Though the political climate has changed, Silent Spring is a reminder that we have created change once and we can do so again.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Environmental Literature Recs - 2. The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle</image:title>
      <image:caption>“For a long time, climate change was something to be discussed in abstract terms, something that existed in the future tense. That is no longer the case. Each passing year brings disasters that disfigure new parts of the United States, and these disasters alter the course of human lives, pushing people from one place to another, destroying old communities and forcing new ones to emerge.” I finished this book on December 27, 2024, and then almost two weeks later, the southern California fires begin. It was horrifying to see the very subject matter this book discussed play out right in front of me: houses built in fire-dependent landscapes are increasingly vulnerable to wildfires, and insurance companies are quick to drop these houses to protect their own profit margins. However, we must not shy away from the truth. This book details how and why climate change is forcing people from their homes as well as how society is currently addressing or perpetuating these displacements. Bittle confronts hard topics of choosing whether to leave or stay while acknowledging the fact that many people don’t have a choice. Each section focuses on a certain area and the challenges they faced. To best understand how climate change will impact our housing and cities, I highly recommend this book.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Environmental Literature Recs - 3. The Fracking Debate by Daniel Raimi</image:title>
      <image:caption>“I heard variations of the same few questions: Were fracking chemicals safe? Was fracking causing earthquakes? Was fracking contaminating water across the country?” Sometimes debates surrounding energy policy can be fairly complex. While we know that carbon emissions traps heat within our atmosphere, there are differing opinions on how to move away from carbon-emitting fuels. Which energy source should we rely on? How fast should the transitional period be? What are the consequences of these new sources? These pressing questions can be overwhelming. However, Raimi strives to have an in-depth discussion about natural gas and the process of fracking. This book fairly analyzes the pros and cons of natural gas, making it a good read for people on both sides of the debate. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in this topic and wishes to form their own opinions on this energy source.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Environmental Literature Recs - 4. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert</image:title>
      <image:caption>“Five of these ancient events were catastrophic enough that they’re put in their own category: the so-called Big Five. In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.”       Part of the ongoing challenges our planet currently faces is that humanity is causing so many changes to the Earth’s ecosystems that many animals are simply unable to keep up. Evolution is a multi-generational process – it is far too slow to handle us. Kolbert grapples with what this might mean for the planet and all it holds. She examines all the different causes of extinction while providing the history of humanity’s understanding of the concept. Each chapter tracks extinction by focusing on a specific species. The writing makes a complex topic understandable, and horror quickly replaces the confusion surrounding extinction. However, I recommend this book because it is important we do not shy away from humanity’s impact on the planet. If we do not seek to understand, we cannot stop what is coming.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Environmental Literature Recs - 5. Wilder by Millie Kerr</image:title>
      <image:caption>“What I realized is this: the diversity of approach and perspective that defines the practice of rewilding likewise applies to how we contribute to environmental protections – and how we rewild ourselves…Whether exerting bottom-up influence like freshwater mussels or engineering creative solutions in the spirit of ecosystem architects, each of us is capable of making the world a wilder, healthier place.” I want to end this list with a little bit of hope. Climate change and environmental degradation is a depressing topic as the doom hits us faster than stories of hope can reach us. However, to stay resilient, it is important for us to remember that the fight is happening now and there have been success stories. Through eleven chapters, Kerr explores rewilding conservation efforts all over the globe, focusing on a specific location for each chapter. She explains the concept of rewilding and all its complexities in a comprehensible manner. Though she does focus on the actual, scientific conservation efforts, Kerr also explains the very human relationship conservation has with local communities, acknowledging the history of removing indigenous people from their lands in the name of conservation. However, so many of the locations she mentions works with local communities either through conservation or through eco-tourism, and that is the path forward. No matter the struggles, we must address our environmental challenges in an equitable way for both humans and animals.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In one of our recent meetings, the team behind Catharsis discussed how our current language may not reflect our true goals. Thus, a re-brand was proposed. After careful consideration, we have decided to switch moral alignments and turn to the dark side. In the coming week, we will be editing our mission statement to better reflect our new crooked outlook. We will also put together a long-term timeline of diabolical plans. We’re still a bit new to being evil, but we hope to work up to more ambitious endeavors (such as world domination) in the next couple years.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Photo and bio courtesy of Liv Kane. https://alivkane.com/about Liv Kane is a writer and filmmaker interested in exploring the intersections between community storytelling, ecology, and food systems. She served as the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at the San Antonio Public Library and received the New York Life Award for her work in 2019. A graduate of Kenyon College and a recipient of the George B. Ogden Award, she published her first essay collection, Gulfwater, with Sunset Press in Spring 2021. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Nonfiction at the University of Iowa, where she is an Iowa Arts Fellow.</image:caption>
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