I have contributed a piece to Tools for Extinction, a new anthology, now available to order from @lollieditions . Featuring: Enrique Vila-Matas Olivia Sudjic Jon Fosse Inger Wold Lund Vi Khi Nao Patrícia Portela Lucie Elven Mara Coson Christina Hesselholdt Jean-Baptiste del Amo Naja Marie Aidt Michael Salu Joanna Walsh Jakuta Alikavazovic Anna Zett Emilio Fraia Frode Grytten Olga Ravn . Tools for Extinction brings together 18 International writers in a collective response to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today. . Meditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time. What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease – or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species’ trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light? . The anthology takes its name from Steven Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology and alternative education. By giving “access to tools”, a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined. . . #contemporaryfiction #COVID19 #bookstagram #toolsforextinction https://www.instagram.com/p/CACoaHnFQug/?igshid=i0fbchql4mq5