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Scott Timberg on Creative Destruction

FIRST POST: BACK FROM THE DEAD + NYT

January 7, 2009 by Scott Timberg


Hi Gang, I’m glad to report that after a period of enforced silence I’m back with a few stories I’m proud of.

Here’s the first, a New York Times piece on a 70s cult novel called “Ecotopia.”
The novel is not as well written or nuanced as Ursula Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia,” which by coincidence i reread at about the same time (that is tough company)… but it’s a “novel of ideas” that you can read on an airplane, and how many of those are there? my story concentrates on the way the book anticipated some of the environmental movement and the michael-pollan eat-local thing. “ecotopia” was green before green was cool, you could say.
This blog will keep interested readers up to date on my stories, which will be appearing in numerous places now, as well as various thoughts-of-the-day on interests such as wine, science-fiction, indie-rock and California weather. At least, I think so.
Cheers,
Scott
Photos courtesy Callenbach

Filed Under: "green", books, ecotopia, west coast

Scott Timberg

I'm a longtime culture writer and editor based in Los Angeles; my book "CULTURE CRASH: The Killing of the Creative Class" came out in 2015. My stories have appeared in The New York Times, Salon and Los Angeles magazine, and I was an LA Times staff writer for six years. I'm also an enthusiastic if middling jazz and indie-rock guitarist. (Photo by Sara Scribner) Read More…

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My book came out in 2015, and won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. The New Yorker called it "a quietly radical rethinking of the very nature of art in modern life"

I urge you to buy it at your favorite independent bookstore or order it from Portland's Powell's.

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Here is some information on my book, which Yale University Press published in 2015. (Buy it from Powell's, here.) Some advance praise: With coolness and equanimity, Scott Timberg tells what in less-skilled hands could have been an overwrought horror story: the end of culture as we have known … [Read More...]

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