{"id":73179,"date":"2017-02-05T23:34:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/author-craig-childs-to-discuss-apocalyptic-planet\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T06:34:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T06:34:27","slug":"author-craig-childs-to-discuss-apocalyptic-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/author-craig-childs-to-discuss-apocalyptic-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Craig Childs to discuss \u2018Apocalyptic Planet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Author Craig Childs will visit Fort Lewis College Wednesday and Thursday to discuss his book,<\/p>\n

Free tickets are available at Fort Lewis College<\/a> Reed Library, Durango Public Library, 1900 East Third Ave., and Maria\u2019s Bookshop, 960 Main Ave.<\/p>\n

The 2012 Apocalyptic Planet<\/em> is an exploration of notions of apocalypse and how the world will someday end.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always thought about landscape in a sense of time. You\u2019re seeing time exposed in front of you. You\u2019re seeing environmental changes. You\u2019re seeing extinctions. It\u2019s always led me to this notion of how the world ends,\u201d Childs said in a Jan. 30 interview with KSUT public radio.<\/p>\n

He has an eye for apocalyptic landscapes, such as the Atacama Desert in South America, the driest non-Polar desert in the world, that are almost violent, yet dramatically beautiful. However, the sense of a flourishing planet is a more prominent theme in his book.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a book about how the world comes to an end, it\u2019s remarkably optimistic,\u201d said KSUT\u2019s Mark Duggan in response to Childs. The book strives to redefine apocalypse and show how things are driven by change \u2013 that cultures, species and climates aren\u2019t just destroyed, but recreated and remade by change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m wanting readers to come away with a greater understanding of the world that they\u2019re in,\u201d said Childs, who was born in Arizona and lives off the grid in Western Colorado.<\/p>\n

The Common Reading Experience<\/a> will include several events:<\/p>\n

Wednesday, Feb. 8<\/div>\n

Noon-1 p.m.: Craig Childs: \u201cReal Lunch,\u201d San Juan Dining Hall.<\/em>7-9 p.m.: Craig Childs: keynote presentation and book signing, Community Concert Hall.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thursday, Feb. 9<\/div>\n

Noon-1 p.m.: Craig Childs: \u201cReal Lunch,\u201d San Juan Dining Hall.<\/em>7-9 p.m.: Craig Childs: keynote presentation and book signing, Community Concert Hall.<\/em>9:30-11 a.m.: Craig Childs: meet the author, Reed Library.<\/em>12:45-2:20 p.m.: Craig Childs: college hour colloquium lecture with a question-and-answer session and book signing, Student Union Ballroom.<\/em>2:30-4 p.m., Craig Childs: discussion on writing and publishing, Room 130, Noble Hall.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tuesday, Feb. 14<\/div>\n

Noon-1 p.m.: Craig Childs: \u201cReal Lunch,\u201d San Juan Dining Hall.<\/em>7-9 p.m.: Craig Childs: keynote presentation and book signing, Community Concert Hall.<\/em>9:30-11 a.m.: Craig Childs: meet the author, Reed Library.<\/em>12:45-2:20 p.m.: Craig Childs: college hour colloquium lecture with a question-and-answer session and book signing, Student Union Ballroom.<\/em>2:30-4 p.m., Craig Childs: discussion on writing and publishing, Room 130, Noble Hall.<\/em>9-9:30 a.m., Craig Childs: \u201cOff the Rim\u201d interview with Nancy Stoffer, KDUR Durango Community Radio, 91.9 and 93.9 FM.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday, Feb. 15<\/div>\n

Noon-1 p.m.: Craig Childs: \u201cReal Lunch,\u201d San Juan Dining Hall.<\/em>7-9 p.m.: Craig Childs: keynote presentation and book signing, Community Concert Hall.<\/em>9:30-11 a.m.: Craig Childs: meet the author, Reed Library.<\/em>12:45-2:20 p.m.: Craig Childs: college hour colloquium lecture with a question-and-answer session and book signing, Student Union Ballroom.<\/em>2:30-4 p.m., Craig Childs: discussion on writing and publishing, Room 130, Noble Hall.<\/em>9-9:30 a.m., Craig Childs: \u201cOff the Rim\u201d interview with Nancy Stoffer, KDUR Durango Community Radio, 91.9 and 93.9 FM.<\/em>5 p.m. and 8 p.m., film \u201cThe Age of Consequences\u201d by Jared P. Scott, Vallecito Room in the Student Union.<\/em>All events are free and open to all.<\/p>\n

To listen to the KSUT interview with Craig Childs, \u201cCataclysm and Idealism,\u201d visit www.ksut.org\/post\/cataclysm-and-idealism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Common Reading Experience, call 247-7270 or visit www.fortlewis.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

fstone@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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