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Jul 27, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | David Lipsky
Of course, “M*A*S*H” wasn’t wholly a comedy, and neither is The Parrot and the Igloo. But it’s the breezy notes in both that make them bearable, that make them works you can learn from and be galvanized by instead of being left feeling suicidal and wanting to get drunk.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Elizabeth Rush |Adam Welz |David Lipsky |David Gessner
Christopher Lancette is a Maryland-based freelance writer focused on nature, the environment, American history, politics, and books. He has written for more than 50 national and local publications ranging from Biography and Entrepreneur to Fine Books & Collections and Salon. He has also served as a communications manager for the Trust for Public Land and communications director at the Wilderness Society. He spends much of his time on his passion project at EyeOnSligoCreek.com.
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Oct 1, 2023 | 
biblioracle.substack.com | Mary Shelley |Anthony Marra |David Lipsky |John Warner
I’ve been thinking about satire this week.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Brittany Bunzey |Dan Egan |David Lipsky |Johan Eklïf
10 Climate Change Books to Read Right NowLook around: Climate change is here, from a hurricane crossing the California desert to devastating wildfires on Maui and flooding across Vermont. If you’re looking to better understand what’s happening now or trying to figure out where to go from here, we recommend starting with these books. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Aug 20, 2023 | 
rollingstone.com | David Lipsky
IF THERE WERE A DENIAL Mt. Rushmore the two biggest heads would be S. Fred Singer and Frederick Seitz. Dishonesty’s Lincoln, lying’s Washington. Together, the two graybeard prophets launched a movement. Frederick Seitz’s slab would be the larger and more solemn. Most decorated scientist ever to slip over to the dark side, the non-truth side. With just about the grandest possible resume entry: former President of the National Academy of Sciences. He did it for the old man reasons.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
lithub.com | David Lipsky
Under George W. Bush, warming became a reboot. The same people, data, arguments—a cycle from the past fifty years. But with the speed cranked way up, so everything appeared and then reappeared fast again like background in a cartoon. Questions that had been settled reopened. A face you thought behind you waited around the next turn. Climate changed the president into a White House version of Wile E. Coyote.
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Jul 24, 2023 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | David Lipsky
I’ve got to thank bestselling author David Lipsky for pulling off a nifty trick in his latest book — making me laugh while reading about the potential end of human life on this planet. Climate change isn’t typically a knee-slapper, but Lipsky had the prescience to slip in a series of guffaws that makes it much easier to keep turning the pages. It’s the kind of deft humor Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds used to keep viewers tuning into a show about meatball surgery and misery during the Korean War.
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Jul 12, 2023 | 
freshsociety.info | Miller Sanford |David Lipsky
On the ShelfThe Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of DenialBy David LipskyNorton: 496 pages, $33If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | David Lipsky |Francoise Malby-anthony |Kate Sidley
An exploration of the history of climate change denial. In this simultaneously captivating and disturbing book, Lipsky, a professor at NYU and National Magazine Award winner, explores the history of climate change—and those who deny that it is largely human-made—over the past 70 years. The author begins by sharing stories of the inventors who sparked the technological advances that, without their knowledge, triggered the climate problems we face today, primarily Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
audible.com | David Lipsky |Miles Taylor |Kate Raworth |Bill McKibben
In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The Parrot and the Igloo, bestselling author David Lipsky tells the astonishing story of how we moved from one extreme (the correct one) to the other.
