Roy Scranton

Roy Scranton (born 1976)[1] is an American writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.[2] His essays, journalism, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Dissent, LIT, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Boston Review. His first book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene was published by City Lights.[3] His novel War Porn was released by Soho Press in August 2016.[4] It was called "One of the best and most disturbing war novels in years" by Sam Sacks in the Wall Street Journal.[5] He co-edited Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War.[6][7] He currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame.[8]

Roy Scranton
EducationM.A. – Social Research from The New School
Ph. D. – Princeton University
Websiteroyscranton.com

Honors

Roy Scranton won the Theresa A. White Literary Award for short fiction 2009, received a Mrs. Giles G. Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities in 2014, and was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2017.[9] His New York Times essay “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene” was selected for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014, and his essay “The Terror of the New” was selected as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2015.

Background

Scranton grew up in Oregon. He dropped out of college and spent several years wandering the American West. He enlisted in the United States Army in 2002, serving fourteen months in Iraq. He was discharged from the Army in 2006. He then earned a Bachelor's and Master's degree at The New School before earning a PhD at Princeton University.

Reception

Author Jeff VanderMeer wrote of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, "It’s a powerful, useful, and ultimately hopeful book that more than any other I’ve read has the ability to change people’s minds and create change."[10] Commenting on his bluntness, Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow of the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote, "There is something cathartic about his refusal to shy away from the full scope of our predicament."[11]

Works
  • Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization. City Lights Publishers. 2016. ISBN 9780872866690
  • War Porn. Soho Press. 2016. ISBN 9781616957155
  • We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change. Soho Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1616959364[12][13]
  • I Heart Oklahoma!. Soho Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1616959388
  • Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature. University of Chicago Press. 2019. ISBN 978-0226637310

References
  1. Scranton, Roy (July 2, 2016). "'Star Wars' and the Fantasy of American Violence". The New York Times. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
  2. "caribou". www.royscranton.com. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  3. "Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Reflections on the End of a Civilization (Roy Scranton)". www.citylights.com. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  4. "War Porn | Soho Press". sohopress.com. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  5. Sacks, Sam (July 29, 2016). "Inverting the War Novel". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  6. Ashlock, Alex (July 29, 2014). "Iraq War Vet Returns To A Broken Country". WBUR-FM. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  7. "Finally, a Realistic Iraq War Novel". The New Republic. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  8. "University of Notre Dame Faculty Page". Retrieved August 28, 2016.
  9. "Lannan Foundation". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
  10. Carroll, Tobias (January 5, 2016). "28 Authors on the Books That Changed Their Lives". Vulture.com. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  11. Tuhus-Dubrow, Rebecca (November 30, 2015). "Impurity: Two Books on the Anthropocene". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  12. "Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books". Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  13. "Doomsayer or realist? Author takes on climate change and war in creative nonfiction essay collection". The Gazette. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
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