![]() ![]() ![]() I spoke to Gabbert about memory, happiness, doomscrolling, and why solving global warming is harder than eating an airplane. She writes: “We believe we need to worry about the right problems, even if we can’t solve them…And with so much that is inaccessible, unknowable, and in flux, we can’t even hold on to whatever we already know.” From the slow violence of global warming to the fever pitch of Twitter feeds, Gabbert gracefully explores what knowledge means when its contexts are constantly collapsing-and which pieces of information we should focus on in the first place. ![]() Poet, essayist, and Electric Literature columnist Gabbert’s fifth book The Unreality of Memoryis an expansive collection of essays that is partly about disaster (9/11, Chernobyl, plagues), but equally about the shifting constructs of society and selfhood through which we mediate the world. As Elisa Gabbert writes, “I wonder if the way the world gets worse will outpace the rate at which we get used to it.” ![]()
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