Archive - Survival by Book

077: On Writing Letters

a letter to a soldier, Nina Stibbe's "Love, Nina," chat groups as an epistolary form, letters as evidence of human connection + links to Charlie…

Feb 11 •

January 2024

076: Leave the Raft Behind

On volcanoes, Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey, life-rafts, and the vast gap between dreams and reality

Jan 21 •

June 2023

The centerline of this particular weekend was survival

An excerpt from Courtney Cook's book-in-progress

Published on Spark • Jun 17, 2023

April 2023

075: Maeslantkering

a day trip with friends, a Dutch storm surge barriers, and a passing reference to Marlow Granados's novel, "Happy Hour"

Apr 29, 2023 •

March 2023

074: let go, let fly, forget

cumulonimbus clouds v. small aircraft, childhood best friends, leaving a job + a post-Oscar link and a killer TBR stack + read to the end for a photo of…

Mar 19, 2023 •

February 2023

January 2023

December 2022

069: diving into the astronomical twilight of our fears

midwinter in Iceland, an insanely huge moon, Beowulf, and of course, monsters and fairies

Dec 24, 2022 •

November 2022

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts